From Wai Wong, Melbourne, Australia
I cannot agree more with Anthony Laverty’s article on the need to curb the trend towards big cars. Not only are they more lethal in a crash, they are also more likely to be involved in accidents because of larger blind spots and longer braking distances. I call for regulations to inconvenience big car owners in subtle ways (22 November, p 19).
In the environmentally friendly Albury-Wodonga region in Australia, along the border between Victoria and New South Wales, both councils have done something in this vein: many free public car-parking spaces are too small for large cars and their owners are supposed to park further from facilities.
