You guys may remember my inane rantings about the width of vehicles? It turns out I'm not insane on this issue at all and there's maths being done and it's not just the lack of English speakers in suburban areas that are going to become a major problem it's the fact that foreigners ( Yes it's mainly foreigners you see in these cars ) are buying cars that are too fucking big for most of the roads here.
Even the most irritating chav knows not to go onto minor roads with their fucking Subaru but lately I've been seeing it more and more that you have an even bigger problem than people buying massive cars that can't fit on even the major roads. There are douchebags who deliberately taking their oversized vehicles onto minor roads knowing they're too big and they block up the entire area stopping people from getting anywhere so everybody has to move around and accommodate them and I had an encounter yesterday dealing with just that which managed to set me off.
New data suggests that cars in the UK are starting to exceed the 180cm minimum width for on-street parking as drivers in Britain tend to opt for larger SUVs.
T&E's study found that the average width of new cars (not including the wing mirrors) expanded by 2.5cm between 2017 (177.8cm) and 2023 (180.3cm).
This one you may find particularly interesting.
This is because the traditional parking space at a supermarket or multistorey car park has remained unchanged for half a century.
The population density and vehicle size is simply changing far too fast for the infrastructure to keep up in a lot of places that were literally designed for horse and carriage. It's amazing the douchebags buying these vehicles can't put two and two together on that or they simply don't care and it seems to be more the latter these days. I know that quote was talking about supermarkets, but it's not just that, the minor roads are very much like this in the UK.
Oh this country is fucked, this is why I do my shops almost exclusively at night now, particularly at the worse times which in the UK is between 17:00 - 19:00 when everyone is coming home from their jobs. You have people clogging up roundabouts and making certain areas impossible to get through because they just occupy the roads rather than drive normally.
The articles are majorly wrong about one thing, the bigger vehicles are not going to cause more accidents, because in order to have an accident you have to be able to move. It's funny because they kind of contradict themselves in the articles themselves, at this rate it is going to be completely impractical to drive a car which is why I'm switching to a scooter.
Don't come here seriously lol.
Now add the problem of house building taking place with new couple and family households requiring 2+ cars. Councils are more than happy to make these new housing developments get built for all that lucrative Council Tax cash they'll recoup from the new households. The problem is, they've failed to invest in the transport infrastructure that is required to keep traffic flowing smoothly at busy times. Cue gridlock at busy times and it isn't going to get better. If anything, drivers are choosing to drive around the problem so the gridlock just spreads outward.
This is why you're seeing congestion charging and ultra low emission zones, they're an acknowledgement that the local authority failed to invest in the transport infrastructure and are now pricing the poorest off the roads in the hope they can reduce the number of cars. What it does is price the working class out of jobs and adds overheads to businesses who pass those costs onto consumers.
What I find so amusing about this is it's become such a problem now for the globalists that it is not even an issue if policy anymore it's a simple maths problem and as much as they will definitely try to they can't avoid it forever. Taxing people off the road isn't going to do it because there's an exponential increase happening with the imported foreign population and it's the foreign population who are most invested in buying oversized vehicles that don't fit on the road. They're doing it with tax money anyway so of course the taxes aren't really going to be affecting them.
That awkward moment when I yet again realise that I'm actually quite good at maths despite my education. Just another PSA of get the fuck out of the cities and away from it all, this is going to end in a total mess I can feel it. Even more so when you have the added problem of increasing amounts of EV's that can be very easily fucked with remotely or through electronic warfare. The dipshit globalists have completely played themselves with this problem.