Entirely unashamed anti car propaganda, and the more the better.
- Thread starter teuchter
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Fuck me! Not quite sure why he was so friendly with the driver afterwards?!
road.cc
Jeremy Vine's lucky escape as bike run over by reversing driver who turned onto cycle lane
"Unbelievable": The BBC and Channel 5 presenter said about the incident in central London this morning
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I do think it’s reasonable to just ban overtaking altogether on city roads
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
I have to agree, and I hate getting stuck behind a bus. But it would be a lot safer and make very little difference to journey times.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Excellent suggestion here to get rid of road space and replace it with housing. This will annoy the car people that I know read this thread but have given up arguing.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Birmingham seems to have a slight car dependency issue
www.theguardian.com
‘People feel scared about walking’: the cost of car culture in Birmingham
After pedestrian deaths and assaults on traffic wardens, a city designed for motorists is fighting for change
Lots of local outrage that people might mistakenly not be going exactly as fast as their allowed!! Local democracy reporting really showing their worth with yet another car story!
Streatham High Road: Conflicting speed limit signs cause confusion Streatham High Road: Conflicting speed limit signs cause confusion
Streatham High Road: Conflicting speed limit signs cause confusion Streatham High Road: Conflicting speed limit signs cause confusion
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Good on Edinburgh (and the Scottish Parliament for enacting the law). We can probably expect idiot motorists to start whinging about this when the fines start being levied.
Edinburgh to be first Scottish city to ban pavement parking
From January, drivers in Edinburgh who park on the kerb face a £100 fine under plans by the council.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
That was interesting, thanks. I've never thought buying everyone a car would work, but I had wondered about small vans as share taxis, which are used in various ways in parts of the global south and can now be more responsive due to technology. Seems it still doesn't really add up - it's just too inefficient.
bcuster
Well-Known Member
New driver charged with having a beer while driving to ‘celebrate’ passing road test 20 minutes earlier
A 25-year-old Canadian man had his driver’s license a measly 20 minutes before he was pulled over by police, who caught him drinking a beer in “celebration” of passing his driver&…
nypost.com
Cars are getting bigger and we’re just blindly letting this happen.
www.theguardian.com
SUVs drive trend for new cars to grow 1cm wider in UK and EU every two years, says report
Bigger cars more likely to kill people, release more toxic gas and are outgrowing design of cities
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
It's interesting that the slope is steeper before SUV sales really started to take off in the late 2000s. And to be fair, our car is 169cm wide and the mrs regularly elbows me shifting gears. An extra 5cm wouldn't be unwelcome, which is about what most subcompacts (eg: Pug 208) have expanded to. A bit of width on the standard small car isn't a bad thing, it's the disgusting ones that really need to be reined in.
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
I think the SUVs certainly are, but the reinforcements they've added in the doors of a supermini only account for half the extra space (if that). A lot of them just have smaller windows to get the extra door frame crash resistance. The back of my belle-mère's brand new Clio is a bit padded cell.
Ax^
Silly Rabbit
they is a drive to make us all drive cross over shitty size SUV ATM
look at the size of a mini, a Yaris and similar cars
the fiesta is getting replaced by the revamped cougar..
all small car are now about the size of a family car from 15 year ago .. and the styling is shite :/
look at the size of a mini, a Yaris and similar cars
the fiesta is getting replaced by the revamped cougar..
all small car are now about the size of a family car from 15 year ago .. and the styling is shite :/
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
A 2003 Mondeo is still a fair bit larger (outside of height vs. the "crossover" ones) than any "small" car today.
Yes, they've grown bigger. But let's not let that get in the way of facts. (the Yaris you mention isn't bigger than a 2003 Focus, let alone the Mondeo) The difference is that a Mondeo was considered a plush, roomy car in its day and not a "small" car. The things that are getting nearer and nearer to its size are considered "just nearly big enough" now. Also, by 2022 the Mondeo had grown a bit, but nowhere near as much as the smaller cars did. It wasn't a massively larger car 20 years on.
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
I just think the focus is on the wrong thing. Cars under <180cm wide getting a bit wider but still being less than 180cm is not important. At all. (Bearing in mind 160cm is considered the practical limit for two people to sit next to each other in comfort with current door safety designs.) I saw my first new Disco in the flesh today and I swear I've seen smaller things on railway tracks. The man (of course it was) driving it had to be 6 foot, but disappeared when he went behind it. We now have the people owning these monsters saying "Well, they got larger too!" points at a Clio that could fit in his boot.
Not only is smaller cars growing not as important, it just isn't news. It's been that way since the 70s - we have the Golf, Fiesta, and Civic to look back at. Each getting larger at every single iteration.
Not only is smaller cars growing not as important, it just isn't news. It's been that way since the 70s - we have the Golf, Fiesta, and Civic to look back at. Each getting larger at every single iteration.
