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.I do think it’s reasonable to just ban overtaking altogether on city roads
Making Roadbelt happen
1. Mayors and councillors to identify land-hungry road junctions and
excessively wide road infrastructure in city and town centres.
2. Use a portion of the increased number of homes accessible by building
onto defunct road space to fund metro and tram improvements.
3. Value the increased number of people who can access jobs with
transport projects above the time saved on an individual road
commute.
4. Adopt Vision-led transport modelling when assessing the impact of
new development on local infrastructure.
5. Investigate whether portions of the £27bn strategic roads budget
could be better spent on mass transit within cities and towns.
6. The DFT should appoint a light rail czar to boost the UK’s connectivity
and therefore productivity.
Isn’t it that they’re getting bulkier rather than more space inside?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.
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.Isn’t it that they’re getting bulkier rather than more space inside?
A 2003 Mondeo is still a fair bit larger (outside of height vs. the "crossover" ones) than any "small" car today.all small car are now about the size of a family car from 15 year ago