In the 1980s one of the biggest cars on the road was a Rover 2500, my wife's uncle had one and we used to joke that he needed an airfield to park it on. I saw one on the road today, driving alongside a Citroën hatchback - and the Citroën was bigger #carspreading
SUVs are 77% more likely to kill a child than traditional cars in a collision. For children under 9, the risk is three times higher.
Is it the war on the motorist or a bit of common sense?
Find out in this week’s Sketch…
#placemaking #carspreading #visionzero #suv #motonormativity
Good to see the Guardian acknowledge the need to push back against SUVs and car spreading, but this editorial feels half-hearted.
#CarSpreading
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No-one is safe with the height of that bonnet! Let alone children 😱 🚸
Incredibly dangerous, highly polluting and completely uneccessary in the UK. Why are we allowing these cars @heidialexander.bsky.social?
#carspreading
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When is the lovely Fiat Topolino coming to the UK to save us all from being 'Defended' by monster SUVs? #carspreading
From @climatetown.bsky.social : "Whelp, the roads of America have been flooded with glorified tanks, and now 4 out of every 5 new vehicles sold are non-passenger work vehicles. How awesome."
#Autobesity #carbloat #carspreading #streetsafety
On a bus in traffic headed into central London whilst adverts of mega SUVs light up the sky, hosted by Transport for London. With bus speeds at a decade low and kids more likely to be killed by SUVs, should TfL really be enabling this @willnorman.co.uk @sebdance.bsky.social? Bleak. #carspreading
Traffic in the West End is being made worse by #carspreading - the rapid growth in the size of private vehicles including supersized SUVs - which means each car now takes up more road space, slows traffic further and increases road danger.
More here: cleancitiescampaign.org/carspreading/ 5/9
It’s time for fairer parking charges for oversized vehicles and stricter safety standards. We shouldn't be importing US-style road danger to the UK. 🛑🇬🇧
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#RoadSafety #CleanCities #Carspreading #VisionZero #ActiveTravel #SUV #RoadSafetyStrategy
There’s nothing childish about designing places to create community.
So, why are we actively putting children at risk?
Find out in this week’s Sketch…
#carspreading #motonormativity #placemaking #SUV #roadsafety #janejacobs #walking #amirite #jangehl
Highlighting some of the marketing messaging around the sale of oversized cars.
😢 How safe are your children if they collide with one of these?
😶 How would it affect you if you were driving it?
❗Don't believe the hype.
#suv #carspreading #ecofamily #childsafety
"No parent wants their kids in daily danger, yet we’re allowing these trucks to become normal on our streets.”
Registrations of the most commonly sold pickup trucks have risen by 92% in just over a decade, an extremely worrying trend. #AirPollution #Carspreading
@cleancitiescampaign.org is calling for urgent action to tackle #carspreading including fairer parking charges and applying car-equivalent pedestrian safety standards to pick-up trucks - the UK should work with EU partners to Adopt a Child Visibility Test to reduce vehicle blindspots 🙏 7/7
NEW #carspreading danger: @cleancitiescampaign.org analysis reveals a 92% rise in number of US-style pick-up trucks on UK roads. We've now more than half a million pick-up trucks where young children can’t be seen over high bonnet ⚠️ 1/7
The number of huge pickup trucks on our streets is worrying.
They’ve got massive blind spots and are far more dangerous for children - I see it every day where I live.
This didn’t happen by accident. Tax rules helped encourage them.
#suvalliance #carspreading @cleancitiescampaign.org
A large car is parked in a marked parking bay on a road. The car is too large for the parking space and is overhanging the markings. The text at the bottom of the picture says "Carspreading. Maybe it's not just us feeling a little bloated this January".
We're glad that the new #RoadSafety Strategy includes a nod to the size & weight of larger cars, and recognises the work of @cardiffcouncil.bsky.social to introduce higher parking fees for heavier cars. It's a step closer towards tackling #Carspreading.
🙏 to @bloomsburyair.bsky.social for the pic.
There were more than 1 million larger cars - SUVs - sold in 2023. This is around 60% of sales and is projected to be 75% of sales in coming years*.
🚸 We believe children should be safe travelling to and from school.
* Stats @cleancitiescampaign
#carspreading #suvs #schoolrun
We agree. Also need deterrents for driving increasingly large cars #carspreading
Agreed.
#CarBloat #Autobesity #CarSpreading #PlacesForPeople
@betterstreetsforbirmingham.org
It's remarkable Westminster Council doesnt charge for car parking in the West End after 18:30... coupled with free congestion charge from TfL and no wonder there's a wild west of traffic in the evenings 😬. More and more SUVs don't help either... #carspreading
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Great to see new powers for councils to end the blight of pavement parking in England. This announcement couldn’t have come soon enough given cars are getting heavier and wider every year making pavement parking even more untenable and dangerous. #carspreading
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The BBC's December article on #carspreading is here www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Got a small car? Show it's a positive choice with a window sticker from CarClimatePledge.org Change the perceptions around outsize cars and help to make them unacceptable
🫵 If you want a safer school run for your kids this Christmas (and every day...) there's one quick thing you can do.
💻 Write to your council and ask them for #SafeStreetsForKids
👉 www.solvetheschoolrun.org/streetsforkids
#saferstreets #schoolrun #carspreading
📢 Our co-founder Claire McDonald was on @BBCLondon !
🚗 Claire chatted to @1aaronpaul about #carspreading - highlighting that #SUVs now make up 30% of cars on our roads - and why this is a problem.
📻 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... (6:25 mins in)
#saferstreets
📣 We were on BBC's Newsround this week!
🙃 The children's news show ran a story on #carspreading with Solve the School Run and it's honestly one of the best SUV explainers we've seen!
Catch the full segment here: bbc.co.uk/newsround/vi...
#carspreading #SUV #saferstreets
📣 We were on BBC's Newsround this week!
🙃 The children's news show ran a story on SUVs with Solve the School Run and it's honestly one of the best SUV explainers we've seen!
Catch the full segment here: bbc.co.uk/newsround/vi...
#carspreading #SUV #saferstreets
'Carspreading': Why Europe's love for big cars is fuelling concern
In the UK and across Europe, cars are becoming longer, wider and heavier. Some cities are determined to clamp down on them.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#car #carspreading
A road with a wide pavement. There is a small car park on the right, with an SUV poking very far out onto the pavement. The text says "Carspreading. King of the...pavement?".
Today's BBC #Carspreading article takes a good look at the issue of the rise of the SUV, with reasons and solutions, but doesn't mention #RoadDanger at all. Children are 82% more likely to suffer fatal injuries in an SUV collision than one involving a car. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7vdvl2531o “The larger it is, the more it pollutes” #Paris #geometry #WarOnCars #congestion #SafeStreets #CleanAir #CleanWater #CarSpreading
Great to see our UK Vehicles Policy Manager Tim Dexter interviewed for the BBC In-Depth piece on the realities of #Carspreading
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