Ban SUVs - Save Lives and Help Stop the Climate Crisis

Ban SUVs - Save Lives and Help Stop the Climate Crisis

SUVs are dangerous especially to people walking, cycling, and rolling and a leading cause of the climate crisis.

A report from the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that found that:

A SUV or pickup crashing into a person walking is 2 to 3 times more likely to kill them than a passenger car.

Prime Minister Trudeau, Minister Alghabra and Minister Wilkinson

SUVs crashes were a leading cause of the skyrocketing deaths of people walking, which increased 46% between 2009 and 2018, according to an investigation by The Detroit Free Press and USA Today. 

According to Growing preference for SUVs challenges emissions reductions in passenger car market based on an analysis published World Energy Outlook:

SUVs were the second-largest contributor to the increase in global CO2 emissions since 2010 after the power sector, but ahead of heavy industry as well as trucks and aviation.

Prime Minister Trudeau, Minister Alghabra and Minister Wilkinson

Bigger and heavier cars, like SUVs, are harder to electrify. Their rising demand may slow down the development of clean and efficient car fleets.

Prime Minister Trudeau, Minister Alghabra and Minister Wilkinson

A Report on Toronto, Vancouver traffic reveals outsized health risks posed by trucks and SUVs states:

While pollutants from tailpipe exhaust have declined as cars have become cleaner, those emissions have been overtaken by other sources of traffic pollution, including fine particles and metal dust from increased wear on brakes and tires, a trend researchers say matches the growing prevalence of heavier consumer vehicles such as SUVs.

A study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that:

SUVs Are 28 Percent More Likely To Kill Other Drivers In A Crash

Prime Minister Trudeau, Minister Alghabra and Minister Wilkinson

The auto industry is failing to protect people's health and safety and the environment. As a result, folks around the world are demanding that governments take serious action including the banning of SUVs especially in communities where there are lots of people around. Time for Canada to take serious action on the climate and road fatality crisis by banning SUVs.  

Photograph: Yann Schreiber/AFP/Getty Images via 'A deadly problem': should we ban SUVs from our cities?

We call on the federal government to ban the sale of SUVs and large pickup trucks until and unless safety and environmentally problems are addressed. Specially, government regulations must mandate:

  1. safer lower front end designs and other measures eliminating the risk people of walking, cycling, rolling, or occupying other vehicles being killed or seriously injured
  2. significantly lighter vehicles decreasing manufacturing and operating GHG emissions enough to address the climate emergency; decreasing harmful tire and brake dust emissions; and enabling rapid fleet electrification 
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SUVs are dangerous especially to people walking, cycling, and rolling and a leading cause of the climate crisis.

A report from the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that found that:

A SUV or pickup crashing into a person walking is 2 to 3 times more likely to kill them than a passenger car.

Prime Minister Trudeau, Minister Alghabra and Minister Wilkinson

SUVs crashes were a leading cause of the skyrocketing deaths of people walking, which increased 46% between 2009 and 2018, according to an investigation by The Detroit Free Press and USA Today. 

According to Growing preference for SUVs challenges emissions reductions in passenger car market based on an analysis published World Energy Outlook:

SUVs were the second-largest contributor to the increase in global CO2 emissions since 2010 after the power sector, but ahead of heavy industry as well as trucks and aviation.

Prime Minister Trudeau, Minister Alghabra and Minister Wilkinson

Bigger and heavier cars, like SUVs, are harder to electrify. Their rising demand may slow down the development of clean and efficient car fleets.

Prime Minister Trudeau, Minister Alghabra and Minister Wilkinson

A Report on Toronto, Vancouver traffic reveals outsized health risks posed by trucks and SUVs states:

While pollutants from tailpipe exhaust have declined as cars have become cleaner, those emissions have been overtaken by other sources of traffic pollution, including fine particles and metal dust from increased wear on brakes and tires, a trend researchers say matches the growing prevalence of heavier consumer vehicles such as SUVs.

A study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that:

SUVs Are 28 Percent More Likely To Kill Other Drivers In A Crash

Prime Minister Trudeau, Minister Alghabra and Minister Wilkinson

The auto industry is failing to protect people's health and safety and the environment. As a result, folks around the world are demanding that governments take serious action including the banning of SUVs especially in communities where there are lots of people around. Time for Canada to take serious action on the climate and road fatality crisis by banning SUVs.  

Photograph: Yann Schreiber/AFP/Getty Images via 'A deadly problem': should we ban SUVs from our cities?

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  • Stephen Lann
    signed 2023-08-31 22:57:03 -0700
  • Nathan Haught
    signed 2023-08-26 17:47:23 -0700
    It’s time to invest in light rail, commuter trains, bus, bicycle infrastructure and walkable cities. It’s time to ban deadly oversize pickups and suvs. Road rages, high fuel costs, social isolation, the burden of car ownership and being forced to own a car to participate in society is a real issue. This is also a non partisan issue. Big pickups are deadly and it is noticable that a large percentage of people who buy them drive aggressively and intimidate and harass other drivers and bicyclists and pedestrians. Enough is enough. Monster jam belongs in the arenas and fairs, not on roads.
  • Robert Delgado
    signed 2023-08-25 17:19:17 -0700
    Every day I see ridiculous people driving by themselves not fully utilizing their truck/SUV. They are wasting fuel and taking up more space than they need to be using on the road ways. People who drive compact sensible cars do not stand a chance up against any truck/SUV above 5000 pounds. Its scary to be on the roads with these huge machines especially when they are driving over 70MPH!
  • Julie Graham
    signed 2023-08-02 09:12:21 -0700
  • Peter Irvin
    signed 2023-07-22 23:39:36 -0700
  • Bertrand Cousineau
    signed 2023-07-20 13:00:28 -0700
  • Joel Cartier
    signed 2023-06-11 14:32:19 -0700
  • Robert Frederick
    signed 2023-05-13 05:33:04 -0700
    These SUVS are most notable around School drop off/pick up times & due to the congestion of traffic & children create the increased problem of injury &/or death. BAN THEM AT THESE TIMES near schools!
  • Sam Melamed
    signed 2023-05-13 03:36:55 -0700
    SUV’s are killing small children in the cies of Australia, because of hidden " Blind spots" and are a hazard on the city roads which are not wide enough to fit them !
  • Peter Jorgensen
    signed 2023-05-08 16:37:44 -0700
  • Omar Ahmedizzat
    signed 2023-05-06 19:43:54 -0700
    I hate SUV’s, there’s nothing good about them. SUV’s are a curse on the Americas roads.
  • Jose Rodriguez
    signed 2023-04-15 12:21:12 -0700
    Those vehicles shouldn’t exist
  • Yanaïs Kammer-Mayer
    signed 2023-03-29 08:16:20 -0700
    SUVs are everything wrong with car consumerism, they’re dangerous, polluting, ugly and A FUCKING SCAM
  • Krzysztof Wróblewski
    signed 2023-03-25 03:50:58 -0700
    Fuck SUVS
  • Ellery Klein
    signed 2023-03-19 04:42:00 -0700
    We deserve to be safe in our own communities. The US government is failing to implement the most basic, common sense limits on size of cars and trucks.
  • Kari Glynes Elliott
    signed 2023-03-18 03:54:36 -0700
  • christine walker
    signed 2023-03-11 09:53:06 -0800
  • Kristo Mefisto
    @MefistoKristo tweeted link to this page. 2023-03-09 06:58:13 -0800
    Sign the petition: Ban SUVs - Save Lives and Help Stop the Climate Crisis https://www.acturgently.org/ban_suvs?recruiter_id=1466
  • Joffroy Boutin
    signed 2023-03-07 08:37:04 -0800
    I’m a cyclist who is fed up of having the drivers of these poorly designed monstrosities purposly speed up and drive closer just to scare me. They endanger everyone around them not only because of the size of there vehicle, but also there attitude ( sociopathic jerks).

    There not only dangerous and pollute more, the gas they burn finances wars like the one in Ukrain.

    I ride a bike because it’s one of the many ways I have to try and make the world a better place. It infuriates me to see how many people not only don’t try, but actually purposelly pollute for shits and gigles.
  • Heather Paschal
    signed 2023-03-07 05:28:34 -0800
    The amount of large suvs and pickup trucks around where I live is insane. We are a tad rural, but 90% of the people here who own these types of vehicles don’t need to, and have admitted to it. It’s also not safe around here to drive on the highway in a small car anymore. We are almost forced to take my compact crossover just so we don’t get bullied off of the road by the over-lifted trucks.
  • Margit Faddis
    signed 2023-03-06 16:49:57 -0800
  • Bill Henry
    signed 2023-02-27 04:15:28 -0800
  • Olivia MacDonald
    signed 2023-01-15 03:11:18 -0800
  • Anthony Marx
    signed 2022-12-16 18:20:31 -0800
    Suv make the road more dangerous. To many people with a false sense of security. Always traveling at high speeds. Impeding vision for other drivers
  • David Komaromy
    signed 2022-12-15 02:20:50 -0800
    Cars kill. They kill pedestrians, they destroy the environment, they chew up precious space that can be used for housing. Pickup trucks are unnecessary in 80% of the cases. They don’t have a large storage space (minivans are a perfecr replacement in this sense), they only have higher clearance so that it is easier for them to kill pedestrian and cyclists. Ban. Them. All.
  • David Pedersen
    signed 2022-12-07 00:03:11 -0800
  • Andre Montagliani
    signed 2022-11-24 11:36:18 -0800
    If you’re serious about distracted driving then getting these monsters off the streets should be priority number one!

  • Chris Bostock
    signed 2022-11-22 08:20:31 -0800
  • Lisa Barrett
    signed 2022-10-29 19:59:43 -0700
    We need free public transit and low cost rail transport across Canada. Stop subsidizing BigOil AND TESLA!
  • Lei
    signed 2022-10-22 16:32:20 -0700

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