In the last 6 days the NY Times has run 4 articles about e-bikes -- all of them negative.
A few other stories the paper might consider:
🔹 E-bikes pollute far less than even electric cars
🔹 Compared to autos, e-bikes pose minimal risk to other people
🔹 Unlike cars, e-bikes provide exercise
It’s REALLY important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally AGAINST downtown bike-lanes, later became one of their most vigourous supporters, because of EVIDENCE that bike-lanes are better for downtown business than any street parking they replace.
We rode along with bike buses in Barcelona and suburban Montclair, New Jersey, and we talked with organizer Sam Balto in Portland, Oregon, to find out why kids who ride with bike buses get to school feeling happy and energized.
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Yesterday my wife was on the way to taking our daughter to school via our electric cargo bike, as usual, and a classmate's father taking the classmate to school in a car pulled up beside them and offered to take our kid the rest of the way. As if the only reason we'd be biking is because of economic necessity. My wife replied "No thanks, we LIKE biking"... Now I'm wondering if maybe I should make a flag or sign for the bike that says "we're not poor, we just like bikes"... or "we just hate cars"? Or "we just believe in climate change and live by our beliefs"? #climatechange#bikes#bicycles#carsRuinCities
I love the idea of cities that are far more people-centred than most today, with properly flexible travel options and fewer cars… and maybe we’re not that far away (and not just in Utrecht). Today I had a large box to collect from my sister, so I had a nice run across London to her house, then a cup of tea, and then a PedalMe e-cargo bike arrived to take me and the box home. And it was FUN. More of this! #cities#bikes#ecargo#climate
The City of #Boulder, #Colorado‘s e-bike rebate program begins in July. Residents will be able to get $300 back off the price an e-bike or $500 off an e-cargo bike sold by local retailers. Low-income residents get even more back, $1200/$1400 respectively.
via @gerrymcgovern
“The results show that making streets friendlier for #bikes — and sidewalks friendlier for #pedestrians — is actually good for #business. The rise of #completestreets and #roaddiets, as urban planners call them, has been a huge boon to businesses in #cities”
“survey after survey has shown that business owners overestimate how many of their customers drive to their stores, versus #walking or #biking”
This recumbent bike was abandoned near my house a few days ago, Victoria BC. Anyone able to reconnect it with it's owner?
Please boost! #yyj#victoria#bikes#recumbent
Hello Mastodon! #introduction 👋 I am Lucas (call me Luuk) from The Netherlands 🇳🇱 Starting my #PhD research at Uni Salzburg, Department of Geoinformatics, in Austria 🇦🇹 It's about human-centric #datascience for #sustainable#mobility planning. How does the way we design streets influence our perceptions of accessibility, and how can we measure this? 🌆 Happy to share thoughts and learn a lot. I also develop #FOSS#software in #rstats and #python 💻 And I like to ride #bikes#cycling 🚲
Y’all are gonna love this. This turn of the century “bike rail” took factory workers to and from town in Smithville, NJ #bikes#transit#history#silentsunday
Conclusion from 32 studies about the economic impact of bike lanes:
"Making streets friendlier for bikes — and sidewalks friendlier for pedestrians — is actually good for business. The rise of complete streets and road diets...has been a huge [economic] boon."
Big news for Londoners: even more Santander e-bikes, and a day pass to make access easier. It's all starting on Sunday March 3rd.
I cannot emphasize how much of a game-changer these e-bikes are for transport in London. Give them a go - I can pretty much promise you'll never look back.