Large pickups do have a place in the road, but not a place in shopping centres and are not suitable as a replacement for a normal sized car.
If you have an obscenely big trailer for commercial or recreational purpose, a Light Truck is the only thing that is able to tow it.
The truth is though, that if you have proper cab-over light truck, you are able to carry a whole lot more than a βConventionalβ light truck with a bonnet.
Worth noting that the proposed changes are based on vehicle fleet data from 2019 (IIRC) and so would only capture the increased size of Rangers/Hiluxes/etc, not the influx of US-style pick-up trucks of the last couple of years
Of course, this means fewer actual parking spaces.
I wonder what theyβll do about that: whether theyβll let bringing your car when you go somewhere become a luxury and encourage people to take public transport/walk or cycle*, or knock down human-scale buildings/dig up footpaths to build more parking.
perhaps not the best idea in a world of gigantic SUVs with blind spots to match