Road safety and active travel. Time to name the elephant in the room.
All motorised traffic poses a risk to vulnerable road users, but it’s bigger, heavier SUVs that epitomise the problem of road danger.
Carspreading: how we lost our streets to SUVs
Cars are getting bigger. We’ve all noticed it. Streets once home with hatchbacks are now dominated by large SUVs and 4x4s.
Taking action against SUVs
SUVs have been growing, in size and in number, for two decades now. Policy action to date has been limited, hence the need for the SUV Alliance and our manifesto for safer, fairer streets.