I'm increasingly of the view that cars need to come under the same rules as any other personal belongings. Store it on your own property, or you haven't got room to own one.
https://twitter.com/BoxbikeLondon/status/1408176798098149382
Street after street in suburbs is made lethally hostile by cars parked bumper to bumper on both side reducing the road to a single narrow lane, in which motorists going either way feel entitled to drive at or more often above the speed limit...
...the trend for the vehicles to all be massively taller than children, so they can't be seen trying to cross or at all from the large cars driving towards them...
...drivers in these streets tearing down straight at cyclists imagining we'll somehow evaporate or something, then getting aggressive when we just stop where we are, on our own side of the road while they're taking up all the space...
...I quite like a big car (not that we have one), I can see the utility. But it's not a vehicle to store on a suburban street. And if people must drive them, whatever they're powered by, the driving style can't be the same as a small car...
...you're going to have to go slower. You're going to have to give way to pedestrians and cyclists as a matter of course. You represent a far greater hazard to others. You need to act like it. Do that, we're all cool. But store it in your own yard.
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