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Originally Posted by Lancpudn
Cars are getting wider too by 1cm every two years  There's a vote in France tomorrow whether to triple parking fees for them.
"Among the top 100 models in 2023, 52% of vehicles sold were too wide for the minimum specified on-street parking space (180 cm) in major cities, including London, Paris and Rome, the research also finds. Off-street parking is now a tight squeeze even for the average new car (180 cm wide), while large luxury SUVs no longer fit. Measuring around 200 cm wide, large luxury SUVs leave too little space for car occupants to get in and out of vehicles in typical off-street spaces (240 cm)."
https://www.transportenvironment.org...ears-research/ |
We could have told the powers to be all that without a survey. The accumulated dings suggests that people cannot exit their wider vehicle with it's wider (?) doors. The only solution is to widen bays but also put vehicle size into the VED equation rather than onerous emission data.
Kev