Wrong direction IMO. Should not be encouraging the trend of larger vehicles.
Yep, accommodating them through infrastructure is just removing barriers to ownership.
These penis compensators are absolutely ridiculous and should be made to pay additional registration fees imo.
Should require an extra licence category too.
Fuckwits drive them they have no place on the road.
Large pickups do have a place in the road, but not a place in shopping centres and are not suitable as a replacement for a normal sized car.
If you have an obscenely big trailer for commercial or recreational purpose, a Light Truck is the only thing that is able to tow it.
The truth is though, that if you have proper cab-over light truck, you are able to carry a whole lot more than a “Conventional” light truck with a bonnet.
Worth noting that the proposed changes are based on vehicle fleet data from 2019 (IIRC) and so would only capture the increased size of Rangers/Hiluxes/etc, not the influx of US-style pick-up trucks of the last couple of years
Yay! So now instead of the idiots taking up six normal-sized parking spaces at Chadstone, the will take up six oversized car parking spaces!
The size of the parking spaces is not the problem. The size of the vehicles is only a symptom of the problem.
Of course, this means fewer actual parking spaces. I wonder what they’ll do about that: whether they’ll let bringing your car when you go somewhere become a luxury and encourage people to take public transport/walk or cycle*, or knock down human-scale buildings/dig up footpaths to build more parking.
- perhaps not the best idea in a world of gigantic SUVs with blind spots to match
