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

  • buzziebee@lemmy.world
    374·
    10 months 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.

    • Oisteink@feddit.nlEnglish
      01·
      10 months ago

      Or you could make electric cars. That would be neat and it works great outside of cities and even in hilly cities. Even during winter or scorching summers.