Yarra City Council is being asked to discourage large and heavy vehicles, including imposing “proportionate parking fees” based on a vehicle’s size.
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.
“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. Only three of the top 10 selling car models in Australia last year were sedans, with the rest either large utes, SUVs or 4WDs. In a sign the Greens might take the issue up at a state level, Brunswick MP Dr Tim Read told parliament on Thursday the state government should follow the lead of Yarra Council in taking on “truckzillas”.
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