Finally, fire departments are buying equipment designed for the city instead of designing the city to fit the equipment.

For some time I have wondered why North American fire trucks are so big, and why our cities are now designed around their dimensions instead of the trucks designed around our cities, like they do in Denmark, where I recently saw these cute little fire engines that could. I wrote about it on MNN two years ago after the fire department in San Francisco fought pedestrian infrastructure that they said was slowing them down.

© Roger Rudick/ StreetsblogBut now, San Fransisco is in the news again with their new rigs. Roger Rudick of Streetsblog quotes the chief: