People on such bikes are a common sight in the Twin Cities as residents increasingly embrace them for shopping and family outings — sometimes taking the extreme step of replacing a car with a cargo bike.
You can buy two good cargo bikes a year for the average total cost of ownership of a car. When so many trips are within bike range, why would you not do this?
We still need to fill edge cases. Hiking is really big where I live but you can’t take public transit to more than one or two trailheads, and certainly not some of the more remote ones.
I desperately want a nonprofit carshare in my area to fill the gap for this as well as occasional things like moving lots of stuff. Without a cost effective way to get a car when you really need one, people will own a car for edge cases. And when you have a car sitting there… you’ll drive it even when you don’t need to.
I like the spin here. Headline should be “Most working middle-class citizens pushed out of the market for new vehicles”.
You can buy two good cargo bikes a year for the average total cost of ownership of a car. When so many trips are within bike range, why would you not do this?
We still need to fill edge cases. Hiking is really big where I live but you can’t take public transit to more than one or two trailheads, and certainly not some of the more remote ones.
I desperately want a nonprofit carshare in my area to fill the gap for this as well as occasional things like moving lots of stuff. Without a cost effective way to get a car when you really need one, people will own a car for edge cases. And when you have a car sitting there… you’ll drive it even when you don’t need to.
There’s a nonprofit rideshare in Ithaca, NY for inspiration! https://www.ithacacarshare.org/
Sounds like you have a project. :P