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More than 1m cars sold in UK each year too big to fit typical parking space
(www.theguardian.com)
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I live in Dublin (NOT UK but there are many similarities) and this drives me fucking crazy. We have teensy-weensy little roads all through the city. they have made it so there's parking on both sides of these little roads, and they are two-way streets. This is just possible for two smaller cars, like a civic or a yaris to squeeze by one another.
enter the one person in a range rover or BMW suv and everybody's gotta fucking wait for these hulking ICE powered shit boxes to clear the road.
Forget parking at shopping centres with them around as well. They will stick out in the front or back, which takes up two spots, of course. Full sized American pick up trucks have started to show up, also, not a blemish in the flatbed.
The road taxes are based on weight, so they do pay significantly more than I will with my 1.4l engine, but not enough for them to not care that they cant see things that are in front of them, that they'd kill every occupant of a normal sized care they hit (its a big part of why they report to like owning them, for "safety" read: killing a family of 4 in a corolla with my truck that I use to drive to work alone)
I do not like it!