SUV sales are now 13 percentage points above the EU average in Ireland, according to data from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association.this morning journalist and environmentalist John Gibbons warned that Ireland’s streets were never designed for US-style big cars."A lot of our cities and towns are based on a medieval framework, these were designed for horses and carts,” he said.
"It was illegally parked in the sense that it was between the positions; it was fairly close to the maximum that it could go forward, yet it blocked up slightly over half the footpath. "It kind of got me thinking; the problem here really is just we haven't designed our cities and towns around these trucks."The latest statistics on this are that we now have approaching 60% of new cars sold in Ireland in 2022 are SUVs.Another caller, Damien, told the show he believes an SUV saved his life two years ago.
"The Guard that arrived, he said 'One second more and that car travelling about 50 miles an hour would have impacted your side door and you probably wouldn't be here.""I have a biofuel alternative to diesel and that should make them very cleaner than they used to be," he said."I don't see there's any problem with an SUV overhanging the footpath any more than anything else".
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