你是否在“占用更多停车位”?SUV可能导致伦敦损失10万个停车位 Are you 'carspreading'? Warning SUVs could cost London 100,000
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这篇文章指出：如果汽车越来越大、SUV持续流行，伦敦等欧洲城市将面临严重的停车位减少问题，甚至可能损失约10万个路边停车位。研究还警告，大型车辆会占用更多公共空间，并可能推高道路死亡风险，因此呼吁通过标准限制车身尺寸，避免“carspreading”继续恶化。
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- fatalities /fəˈtælətiz/ n.：死亡人数；死亡事件
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- overwhelmed /ˌəʊvəˈwelmd/ adj.：不堪重负的；淹没的
- oversized /ˌəʊvəˈsaɪzd/ adj.：过大的；超尺寸的
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你是否在“占用更多停车位”？警告：SUV可能导致伦敦损失10万个停车位
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'.
T&E asserted that urban thoroughfares are becoming overwhelmed by 'oversized' cars that cities 'simply weren’t designed for'.
The research detailed that since the turn of the millennium, the average length of new cars has expanded by 1.2cm annually, with overall height, bonnet height, and width each growing by approximately 0.5cm per year.
If this trend continues, on-street parking capacity in cities will be cut by between 8.5% and 14% by 2040, according to the analysis.
This means London could lose about 100,000 parking spaces, the study warned.
T&E also stated that the rise of larger SUVs could lead to about 400 additional road deaths annually by 2040 across the UK and European Union, compared with a scenario in which car sizes steadily returned to 2015 levels.
The think tank claimed that car makers have “shifted away from smaller models” despite “shrinking family sizes and falling car occupancy”.
Anna Krajinska, T&E UK director, said: “Car manufacturers have spent decades pushing large expensive cars at the expense of smaller models.
“After 25 years of relentless growth, our streets are dominated by oversized SUVs that cities simply weren’t designed for.
“The result is a lose-lose: councils are forced to reshape streets around larger vehicles, sacrificing parking capacity, public space and safety in the process.
“This is a market failure. Without clear standards to limit car size and encourage right-sizing, carspreading will continue unchecked, and cities will keep paying the price.”
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