"They're polluters, they're space-occupiers, they're dangerous for pedestrians and other road users. They're a caricature of a car."
"Off-road vehicles are just not suited to towns and you have to wonder why people drive them," Denis Baupin, a senior Green party councillor who tabled the resolution, said yesterday.
Under the resolution, SUVs (sports utility vehicles), (...), could be banned from Paris city centre during peak pollution periods, and their owners denied residents' parking permits. (...)
The plan (...) follows similar remarks by the mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, who last month described 4x4 vehicles as "bad for London - completely unnecessary" and called their owners "complete idiots".
Taken from the Guardian.co.uk
SUV ban for Paris and London
If you expected me to exuberantly wave my fist in the air and shout "YESSSSS!!!!!" Well, you're right of course.
Imagine what would happen if half the population decided to drive their own 18-wheeler trucks. Same principle,really. Safety, lack of visibility, gas guzzling, etc. And if I've never made the point before: doesn't anyone who drives a car get sick and tired of just trying to see AROUND these behemoths?
Imagine what would happen if half the population decided to drive their own 18-wheeler trucks. Same principle,really. Safety, lack of visibility, gas guzzling, etc. And if I've never made the point before: doesn't anyone who drives a car get sick and tired of just trying to see AROUND these behemoths?
SUVs make no sense in Europe. The only reason to buy one is if you want to look like a crazy American. They ought be banned.
Down in Florida everyone drives one and there is not a mountain in the whole state. I see Hummers everywhere. And lots of big trucks with American flags. Isn't calling someone a flag waver a negative thing? Why doesn't anyone ever tell these people they are being morons? Is everyone over here crazy?
Down in Florida everyone drives one and there is not a mountain in the whole state. I see Hummers everywhere. And lots of big trucks with American flags. Isn't calling someone a flag waver a negative thing? Why doesn't anyone ever tell these people they are being morons? Is everyone over here crazy?