Have you heard of carspreading? It’s like manspreading but for vehicles, cars that take up more and more space and refuse to yield. The term is gaining traction in urban planning circles, particularly in Europe, where studies show new cars are growing slightly bigger each year. London and Berlin are projected to lose over 100,000 parking spaces as cars swell in size, and there’s concern because larger vehicles lead to more pedestrian and bicyclist injuries. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “The Rise of “Carspreading,” “Manspreading” in Urban Planning”
Here’s a new term I want to keep an eye on – car spreading.
Have you run across this one?
It’s kind of like manspreading, but for cars, right?
Yes.
Where they, they just take up more and more space and don’t give away to anything else.
Yes, you’re exactly right.
Apparently, this term is starting to be used more and more in urban planning circles, particularly in Europe, because studies show that new cars are growing a little bit bigger every year, and supposedly London and Berlin are set to lose over 100,000 parking spaces due to swelling car size.
Know, you go to some of those European countries the roads are really narrow.
There’s also concern that bigger cars mean more pedestrians and bicyclists can be injured by them.
So car spreading is a term that people using, popularizing to, to try to reverse the trend.
Yeah.
To point out the car premise, the idea that cars somehow are the first decision point when it comes to urban planning, which just doesn’t have to be the case.
