Children steamrollers do not belong in cities.

Edit: Can you think of a better backronym for SUVs? Street Unsafe Vehicle? Super Unsafe Vision? Severely Unsafe Vehicle? Striking Unsuspecting Vulnerables?

Please please please do this in London. I’m sick of all the completely unnecessarily giant cars around here.

Brilliant!

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This included increasing the number of pedestrian crossings, 20mph zones and driver awareness events for young newly-qualified motorists.

“Now it may be appropriate for a farmer in Fife to have a Land Rover, but it’s not appropriate for a banker in Bruntsfield - if they don’t also own a farm up in the Highlands - it’s not appropriate for them to have a massive great gas guzzler,” Cllr Booth added.

In recent months Edinburgh SUV owners have been targeted by environmental activists, who said they intended to make it “impossible” to own one in the city.

Cllr Munro, who is a local councillor for Bruntsfield, said: "Somebody’s job and how hard they work and what they choose to spend their money on is entirely down to them; that’s their house, their vehicles, that’s where they shop.

Agreed unanimously by councillors, it called for the next road safety report coming forward in March to “explore the feasibility of steps to discourage or restrict larger and heavier vehicles in the city”.

Cllr Booth said pedestrian deaths in the US were at their highest level for the last 40 years and cited research from Belgium which found larger vehicles are more likely to have blind spots.

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I live near Edinburgh, this sounds fuckin sick lol

@mondoman712 Good ,they need banning from the rental market too ,they are too big and too powerful for idiots to rent for driving along narrow country roads .I also think campervans need restrictions and a separate driving test some are huge yet you can drive them with just a normal driving licence ,people leave their tiny city car parked up and get into one of the campervans and have no idea how to drive safely in them

Scare quotes around “gas-guzzling”

Saying “planet-burning” instead

Edinburgh resident here, just a fact not that it makes my opinion more valid. Really feel this will not stick and is just the councillors making statements to get us on side. It should not be down to city councils to even attempt to intervene on this. The industry should make smaller cars. There is also an obvious joke here for those defending SUVs in Edinburgh, the roads are so filled with pot holes, its like driving on a farm track. A pot hole literally snapped the axle on my (albeit very old) bike once.

These small steps are important progress