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Originally Posted by Franco Cozzo
Standard operating procedure for these people - you know how it is.
There's a massive undercurrent of salty pricks about American utes around inner Melbourne, and its just because everyone is upset about others having the sort of coin to throw around on epic purchases like that, so they want them banned.
They're using the 'safety' aspect, with the green aspect on the tail end of the argument, but its not the agenda, its just the padding around the shit sandwich covered in sprinkles they want you to eat.
Wouldn't surprise me to see Melbourne councils specifically target large SUVs/Thailand Specials/American utes in disincentive programs because it will generally only effect people outside of their rate payers.
They have nothing to lose discriminating against people who live outside their LGAs who may own these vehicles, and only something to gain in the form of popularity with their electorate, if you live within 5KM radius of Melbourne CBD you won't usually own a Ranger, or a RAM.
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Council could slug ‘truckzillas’, utes and SUVs with higher parking fees
An inner-Melbourne council could become the first municipality in Australia to increase parking fees for so-called truckzilla twin-cab utes and large SUVs, due to concerns about their safety and environmental impact.
Yarra City Council – which includes Fitzroy, Richmond and Collingwood – will on Tuesday debate a motion from Greens councillor Sophie Wade asking the council to investigate ways to discourage large and heavy vehicles on Yarra’s streets, including “proportionate parking fees based on a
vehicle’s size”.
Wade said she was “following Paris’ lead” in putting up the proposal, after Paris residents voted in a mini-referendum last month to triple parking fees for large cars, part of a push to get big cars off the city’s streets before the Olympics later this year.
“Here in Aus, we’re seeing RAMs and ‘Defenders’ on the rise,” Wade wrote on Instagram. She said no other council had tried the idea.
“These are luxury vehicles, costing upwards of $100k, and they’re significantly more dangerous than smaller vehicles.
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https://www.theage.com.au/national/v...08-p5fazj.html
See the theme creeping in constantly?
'Luxury vehicles'
'Costing upwards of $100K'
Then throw in the 'safety aspect' which Citroen rightly pointed out it has nothing to do with the green angle they're targeting:
Um, thats not an SUV Sophie
Was mentioned on AFF before that these people are in a minority and that just because they're loud that it won't effect the rest of us, or something along those lines.
They might be a minority but they're disproportionately powerful and hold significant influence where it counts. How quick have you seen a council move like this before?
Curious to see the effects of this, because our TAFE is in their LGA and a lot of the students have Thailand Specials, vans et al, you know cause electrical apprentices.
They only sell like 200-250 Silverados/RAMs a month, its just that they're prominent so they stick out like dogs balls, there's not that many of them on our roads.