It’s nice to see larger outlets talking about urbanism topics and Vox has made a few videos in this area recently.

  • mrpants@midwest.social
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    3 years ago

    I haven’t read the article and am here to give my ignorant opinion. This wouldn’t work ever anywhere for any reason. Thank you.

  • ntzm [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    Erm how am I meant to take my grandma to hospital and also drop off three fridges and my kids to school and then an entire building’s worth of bricks? Therefore cargo bikes will never work in any situation. I am very smart.

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      3 years ago

      You forgot to mention that you do this each day every day. Not a once a year or once a quarter thing.

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    3 years ago

    For those of you getting riled up to point out how this wouldn’t work in rural Nebraska - yeah no shit!

    This video is taking about how it can be very beneficial for urban areas to use electric cargo bikes rather than vans, and how it helps everyone to remove the amount of vehicles in inner cities by providing safer ways for bikes to move around (and better for emissions too!). The parcel services in my city all have hubs where lorry’s drop off pallets, and then bike porters to take the parcels for the final mile. It works great.

    Everytime there’s a video about the benefits of bike infrastructure or public transport the online discourse gets filled with pointless bad faith drivel about how public transport or bike lanes don’t work in an area with a population density of 0.000001/km^2. No one is claiming that’s the case, and no one benefits from you pointing that out. Get a grip.