Proposed carless Auckland subdivision

[ijmorlan]

Also somehow in North America we've been talked into having wide roads so that emergency services can access them. Not the case in e.g. the UK, where they have smaller trucks. To be honest I haven't seen many firetrucks in NZ so I can't say how big they are compared to North American ones.

The tail does indeed wag the dog here. Emergency services takes their huge fire trucks as a given, rather than adapting their choice of vehicle to the situation. Then of course some of the emergency calls involve people being run over by people driving way too fast along the excessively wide streets.