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Yeah, this feels more like preventing third party batteries from working. An average shady shop can definitely hotwire this.

I am always thinking about airplanes.

and you can park cargo bike there? how are you going to do that? do the parked cars suddenly disappear?

There are no parked cars, on-street parking is rare and expensive here, it’s mostly free market instead of city-subsidized, so around 30 EUR a day on-street or 70 EUR a month in a big garage.

They disappeared 50 years ago when cities realized they don’t fit in.

or are going to just illegally park it on the sidewalk, because rules don’t apply to you?

No, I’m legally parking it on the sidewalk if it’s for a delivery dropoff, and in my own real estate for storage, instead of the idiots who stop on the road with their cars/trucks and block traffic for everyone.

always think some problems don’t affect bikes, just because they are rather curiosity right now.

No, they are and have been the norm in the Netherlands and neighbouring territories now for 50 years, and they work, and we simply don’t have a lot of problems related to car-centric infrastructure. Actually, it makes it easier to travel by car, since there are less traffic jams, safer streets for everyone.

I have choice. I don’t need to buy and maintain a car to live. If I like, I can rent one for cheap for a single trip, but I can take the same trip by train or bike. I can work while commuting, I can go to the neighbouring city with friends, get drunk, and get home safe by train.

Cars limit people.

Indoors, mostly. Garages underground that can either house 20–30 cars or literal thousands of bikes. Cargo bikes can stop on sidewalks since they don’t block foot traffic as much as a whole van would.

Well yes, a single lane is defined as at least 3.65 meters, while a bike lane can’t be wider than 1.70 meters, so it’s 2.14 lanes of bikes for each car at the very least, but it’s mostly more since bikes can turn tighter and don’t need as much space for intersections.

The Randstad in the Netherlands, but Belgium is closely following.

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakfiets

oh i would like to see your face when all goods that is being transported in vans would suddenly start clogging these bike lanes.

Already happened here, vans aren’t even allowed to stop here. It works and the city is less congested.

This is an extra wide one, the picture description is complaining that it takes the whole one-direction bike lane (that’s a third of a road lane).

Look at any restaurant at any city in Europe.

You can’t even park a van for streets sometimes.

Cargo bikes don’t need roads.

Specific as being in an European city.

Not enough space for stopped vans everywhere.