This included increasing the number of pedestrian crossings, 20mph zones and driver awareness events for young newly-qualified motorists.
“Now it may be appropriate for a farmer in Fife to have a Land Rover, but it’s not appropriate for a banker in Bruntsfield - if they don’t also own a farm up in the Highlands - it’s not appropriate for them to have a massive great gas guzzler,” Cllr Booth added.
In recent months Edinburgh SUV owners have been targeted by environmental activists, who said they intended to make it “impossible” to own one in the city.
Cllr Munro, who is a local councillor for Bruntsfield, said: "Somebody’s job and how hard they work and what they choose to spend their money on is entirely down to them; that’s their house, their vehicles, that’s where they shop.
Agreed unanimously by councillors, it called for the next road safety report coming forward in March to “explore the feasibility of steps to discourage or restrict larger and heavier vehicles in the city”.
Cllr Booth said pedestrian deaths in the US were at their highest level for the last 40 years and cited research from Belgium which found larger vehicles are more likely to have blind spots.
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This included increasing the number of pedestrian crossings, 20mph zones and driver awareness events for young newly-qualified motorists.
“Now it may be appropriate for a farmer in Fife to have a Land Rover, but it’s not appropriate for a banker in Bruntsfield - if they don’t also own a farm up in the Highlands - it’s not appropriate for them to have a massive great gas guzzler,” Cllr Booth added.
In recent months Edinburgh SUV owners have been targeted by environmental activists, who said they intended to make it “impossible” to own one in the city.
Cllr Munro, who is a local councillor for Bruntsfield, said: "Somebody’s job and how hard they work and what they choose to spend their money on is entirely down to them; that’s their house, their vehicles, that’s where they shop.
Agreed unanimously by councillors, it called for the next road safety report coming forward in March to “explore the feasibility of steps to discourage or restrict larger and heavier vehicles in the city”.
Cllr Booth said pedestrian deaths in the US were at their highest level for the last 40 years and cited research from Belgium which found larger vehicles are more likely to have blind spots.
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Those Belgian researchers must be some foxes to develop such a theory!