I live in NYC and am a huge fan of the potential electric bikes and, more so here because of living space constraints, electric scooters bring to the table. The problem we have here is that, in the congested areas, the battle to build more bike lanes is being met with resistance and, even when they get built, the lanes are often unprotected and fully exposed to traffic. In manhattan, the city could literally survive with no cars. The mass transit system is excellent and scooters and bikes could do the rest.
I have an electric scooter up here in Montreal, and man is it fantastic. My commute to work is on protected bike lanes literally door to door from my building to the office. I’ve looked at NYC on google maps street view, and it’s crazy how few protected bike lanes y’all got.
Out of curiosity how would shipping work without car/trucks there? Like I’m fully in support of shifting away from cars but I’m not aware of any sufficiently efficient last mile transportation solutions that don’t use such vehicles.
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I live in NYC and am a huge fan of the potential electric bikes and, more so here because of living space constraints, electric scooters bring to the table. The problem we have here is that, in the congested areas, the battle to build more bike lanes is being met with resistance and, even when they get built, the lanes are often unprotected and fully exposed to traffic. In manhattan, the city could literally survive with no cars. The mass transit system is excellent and scooters and bikes could do the rest.
I have an electric scooter up here in Montreal, and man is it fantastic. My commute to work is on protected bike lanes literally door to door from my building to the office. I’ve looked at NYC on google maps street view, and it’s crazy how few protected bike lanes y’all got.
I assume you wear a suit and a black helmet, because that’s what everyone on a E-scooter in Montréal at rush hour on route vert 5 looks like.
Out of curiosity how would shipping work without car/trucks there? Like I’m fully in support of shifting away from cars but I’m not aware of any sufficiently efficient last mile transportation solutions that don’t use such vehicles.
They said no cars, nothing about no trucks.
Any fully pedestrianized city/area I’ve been too still allows trucks and emergency vehicles.
Yeah trucks for shipping would still be a necessity.