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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Neil Lancefield

Are you ‘carspreading’? Warning SUVs could cost London 100,000 parking spots

Major European cities, including London, face the prospect of losing up to one in seven on-street parking spaces if the current trend of increasing car sizes persists, new analysis reveals.

The warning comes from the think tank Transport & Environment (T&E), whose study also highlights a potential rise in road fatalities linked to the growing popularity of larger vehicles, such as SUVs – a phenomenon critics have dubbed 'carspreading'.

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