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.
We genuinely don't, it's a maths problem, the mass migration definitely is the biggest factor in relation to this though. Foreigners don't realise how small this island really is. It's like the plan to stick a shit ton of migrants in Ireland, I wasn't surprised that they're burning down buildings over it because like me they know as well it simply won't work. We don't have the square footage to accommodate all this influx and it's finally biting us in the arse as expected.
It's probably a bit of lack of perspective thanks to history.
It's hard for a lot of people to see Britain as such a small island when you travel the entire span of it in less than a day when the British Empire once owned most of the world.
America being global considering It's size makes sense but a lot of people can't wrap their head around how that little island was once so powerful.
The UK used to ship excess people to the colonies. Now, they can barely maintain their native population.