The city #transportation system at each end of the #trains is as much a part of the #InducedDemand as the service itself. If you get there and require a car for #mobility, maybe needing to take slow, infrequent #transit to an airport on the edge of town to get a rental, the train has lost its edge vs #shortHaulFlights in time, if not expense. Taking a folding bike on the train is an okay workaround for some, ridehail/taxi activity at train stations suggests a need for bikeshare + #cargoBikes
@kim_harding#eBikes will replace cars if we let them: "#infrastructure must make e-cycling as well as cycling safe, efficient, and attractive at the scale of the urban region. Electric assistance cannot compensate for the lack of cycle ways. ... must be thought in combination with other modes (walking, public transport, carsharing, #cargoBikes) to make it possible to live car-free… planning should aim to regulate urban sprawl and promote more compact development to avoid automobile dependence"
Somehow, #Costco was out of carts. I don't know how that happens. There were people waiting at the entrance, trailing other people to their cars to grab their carts.
"No sweat," I told the security people at the store entrance. "I brought my own cart."
I made two nucs today, my bees already have a lot of breed. Unfortunately we lost some hives during winter so I need to get to a sustainable level again. #bees#beekeeping#berlin#cargobikes
German "progressives" are so obsessed with taking right wing trolls serious. Trying to argue with them and convince them with facts...
One extremely tiring trope in this area relates to #cargobikes . One might call it "Look how much I can carry on my cargobike!" WHO are you trying to convince?
Who has $9k to spend on #cargoBikes and wants to try this? With the #GrinMAC motor and #RegenBraking (in the rear wheel), front suspension, cable steering, should be quite the ride (caveat really steep hills vs 130lb bike with hub motor in 26in wheel, you need to keep some speed up and probably need dual batteries, but you can check on the ebikes.ca motor/trip simulator vs your actual hills.)
Electric bikes from Decathlon have been catching our eye for some time now. One key model - the R500e Longtail - needed a closer look. Now the review is done our tester would like to hang on to it, which is about as good an endorsement as they come: https://www.cyclingelectric.com/reviews/decathlon-r500e-cargo-bike-review
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If your EVs aren't selling maybe that's because you're making giant fucking trucks and SUVs and hyper-expensive luxury sedans and the kind of people who want EVs mostly just want a compact car for getting to work and running errands.
@tess The affordable, efficient, small #EV most people want is an #eBike and/or #cargoBikes which use 1/100th the amount of #lithium and other #carbon-intensive resources, costs less to own two #eBikes than one year of car expenses, don't have to give up your old gas car yet, no worries for #parking or grid-scale crisis about charging infrastructure. All we need are #transportation Engineers who don't fruitlessly waste every inch of city streets on cars, and some transit priority lanes instead.
If you support walkability and safe streets but only if zero drivers perceive themselves to be inconvenienced by the infrastructure, then you don't support walkability or safe streets.
alt text: crying feels guy meme: "I... have to drive around the block and pay to park here!?", the driver's tears flow into protected bike lanes across the bottom of the image with happy children and financially secure adults enjoying the wind in their hair and a livable city with plentiful #transit as they ride to errands and other short trips in the neighborhood on comfortable upright bikes, #eBikes and #cargoBikes. #BanCars#BikeTooter
@xtaran@bicripple the "Ordinary" was the bike with a large front wheel and fixed pedals, and then came the "safety bicycle" with the triangular frame. In any case, Extraordinary seems not to be a great or very correct term for the non-safety bicycles (also not a great term) so I'm no help. 🤷 I tend to just mention #cargoBikes or #adaptiveBikes as two kinds of atypical cycle that need to be considered in #BikeParking. At least that covers extra width or length consideration, sorry tallbikers.