An article about the growing size and shape of personal trucks, and the danger they pose to other road users, particularly pedestrians and cyclists:

https://theweek.com/articles/929196/case-against-american-truck-bloat

FYI Bike Winnipeg argued this issue at the latest PUB review of MPI road safety programs, and the PUB has ordered MPI to analyze the extent to which personal trucks do more harm to other road users than sedan type vehicles.  MPI is in a unique position to do this, what with having 100% of the data from crashes in the province and a methodology for assigning costs to injury (v. other jurisdictions which have highly variable injury cost settlements arising from  court proceedings).  It will be interesting to see what this study finds.

Charles Feaver

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