Extraordinary scenes inside council meeting

People who own giant utes and SUVs in the city have been branded “absolute idiots” who “need to be dealt with”, as a council votes to advance an Australia-first crackdown.like the Ford F-150, RAM 1500 and Land Rover Defender have exploded in popularity in Australia in recent years but sparked backlash from some motorists who say the vehicles are clogging roads and parking spaces not designed for them.

Councillor Stephen Jolly, who moved several amendments calling for more data, said that “if you live in Fitzroy or Collingwood or Richmond and you buy a Hummer you’re an absolute idiot and you need to be dealt with”. “We need to ensure our most vulnerable, disadvantaged residents are not disadvantaged by some action we take here,” he said. “I think that’s entirely possible to do, but we need to walk into it with a social justice perspective as well as environmental perspective.”

Local volunteer Alex Lamb commended the council for “sparking a national conversation about this following Paris which sparked a global conversation”. The motion added that “any investigation and consultation should consider appropriate caveats” such as electric vehicles and people with disabilities, and options for directing funding to projects that “make walking safer” such as the New Deal for Schools program, announced in the 2023-24 budget, which aimsEarlier in the meeting, during public comment on the 10-year Transport Action Plan, some disgruntled residents and business owners complained that the council had progressively removed...

Randwick Greens Mayor Philipa Veitch told the newspaper she was open to all options to discourage oversized SUVs which “are clogging up our roads and are a menace for pedestrians and cyclists”. The former Cumberland Mayor said he acknowledged that the vehicles were large but and “we need to cater to these vehicles when we create parking spaces”.

Source: Car News Wire (carnewswire.net)

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