• FireRetardant@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    “The inner-suburban Yarra city council voted on Tuesday to investigate whether parking fees should be increased for larger vehicles such as SUVs and trucks due to safety concerns”

    If there are safety concerns, raising the price of parking just puts a price on them, it doesn’t make these vehicles any safer.

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      10 months ago

      True, but this should at least discourage people from buying these vehicles, and collecting some revenue in the process (which in the case of cash starved local councils is a good thing). It would take a federal government effort to ban these vehicles altogether I suspect.