Most SUVs banned on California residential streets

Most SUVs banned on California residential streets

Very good read:

http://slate.msn.com/id/2104755/

short sample of the article:
" Unless you drive one of the largest SUVs, such as the Chevy Suburban, the Cadillac Escalade, or the Ford Excursion, I'll bet you've watched them thundering down quiet residential lanes and wondered to yourself: Why is that monster allowed on this little street?
Well, here's a surprising piece of news. It may not be. Cities throughout California—the nation's largest car market—prohibit the heaviest SUVs on many of their residential roads. The problem is, they don't seem to know they've done it.

I discovered this secret ban after noticing the signs at both ends of my narrow Los Angeles-area street (a favorite cut-through route for drivers hoping to avoid tie-ups on bigger roads). The signs clearly prohibit vehicles over 6,000 pounds.

I knew a 6K pound limit ruled out a lot of the larger trucks that routinely rumble by my house, unpursued by traffic cops. But then I got to thinking: Could some of those bigger SUVs exceed 3 tons? So I did some research, and I hit the mother lode."

The article makes excellent points and it makes me hate poser SUVs even more.

GOOD.......I hate those huge SUV's! TOO bad they'll never enforce it.

no kidding. it'll get enforced even less than "left lane for passing only"

^ yeah lol and you have people like my grandpa who drive 10 under the speedlimit in the LEFT LANE........ accident waiting to happen.

so damn true that they're never goina be enforced.. damn I hate SUV's.
Fuckin air nazis are all over us for putting on a intake and I see those damn hummers barreling down the streets.

i read somewhere that hummer purposely put extra weight into the H2 so they didn't have to comply with fuel and emmision regulations.

I blame those damn celebrities with their eska-lads on 24ssssss. And those darn rappers and their hippity hop muzak.

And if you don't have a family of 12 you shouldn't be allowed to buy a excursion or equal sized SUVs. A fucking soccer mom doesnt need an excursion to carry around two kids or more. Unless she has 12kids get a fucking mini-van. And wat happened to station wagons. I wouldn't mind driving a jaguar x-type wagon.prolly cost as much as an excursion.

Time to get on the phone with my local congressman -- who probably also drives a Stupid Useless Vehicle.

guys - i hate SUVs too, but you seem to be forgetting that this is America. People have the freedom to buy whatever they want here - regardless of whether you or I like it. Something like this is just an example of another stupid way of taking freedom away from people. Big shocker that it's in California

Freedom means freedom for everyone - not just those who agree with you.

I agree that people should be able to drive whatever they want, but these types of SUVs get WAY too many privilages/breaks like the article mentioned. If you're going to basically subsidize the sale of SUVs by letting owners write off up to $100,000 because it's used for "work"...fine BUT they HAVE to get a cdl AND they can only drive them on truck routes. Otherwise take all the tax breaks away AND make them meet emmissions, fuel efficiency, and safety standars just like all other cars on the road. That's what pisses me off the most, that these useless vehicles are getting huge tax breaks AND they bypass all the requirements...what a sweet deal. No wonder GM/Ford/Dodge can't put out a decent car worth their lives without it being at least 15 years behind compared to Japanese cars.