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705 #ClimateSolutions #Cities #Deliveries #ECargoBikes

"It's time to replace urban delivery vans" [6:19 min]
by Vox

youtube.com/watch?v=R63DdEe_8a

Quote by V:
"Sep 20, 2023
E-bikes are cleaner, and safer. So why aren’t we using them?
Remember during lockdown, how we all got obsessed with ordering everything online and having it delivered right to our doorsteps? Yeah, turns out that isn’t going away anytime soon, and we’re starting to understand the many downsides. The delivery vans that make our next-day shipping dreams come true are driving up C02 emissions while making our streets more crowded and less safe.
Fortunately, there’s a hero waiting in the wings: the e-cargo bike. Not only can these bad boys deliver packages in urban environments just as quickly (and sometimes faster) than delivery vans, they take up far less space and are much less likely to cause pedestrian deaths. Companies like Amazon, DHL, and UPS are using them in several European cities, but American cities haven’t followed suit.
In this video, we explore why that is, and lay out some of the big steps American cities would need to take to join the e-bike delivery revolution."

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YouTubeIt's time to replace urban delivery vansBy Vox
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#States Considering #Taxing Retail #Deliveries To Pay For Roads When #Gas #Tax Fall Flat
As Americans buy more fuel-efficient cars and EVs, #gastax revenues that pays for roads will start to dry up. However, 100s of heavy #delivery vehicles criss-cross roads every day, ultimately damaging #roads and #bridges. Taxing each delivery these trucks make could refill the coffers
States like Minnesota and Colorado have already started taxing deliveries from companies like #Amazon
jalopnik.com/states-considerin

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Chuck Darwin

More lanes does not equate to better traffic,
especially in an urban or even suburban environment.

In reality, people and their movements complex: streets that are flexible are more efficient than streets that prioritize straight-ahead movement over every other movement.

Some people need to #turn left and some people need to #cross the street, and some people are #walking, and some people are #biking, and some people are in #wheelchairs, and some people have #strollers, and some people are making #deliveries

⭐️Having too many travel lanes makes these non-straight-through movements slower and much more dangerous.⭐️

For example, this is why NE 65th Street in Seattle 🔸can now move 5% more vehicles after SDOT reallocated nearly 25% of the street space 🔸to create protected bike lanes and safer crosswalks.

People can turn left now, which makes it a better street to drive on.
👉They reduced speeding by up to 75%, reduced collisions by 63%, and eliminated serious injuries and deaths.

💥And they did all this while moving more people in cars and dramatically more people biking, walking and rolling. 💥

This is not a “last resort” solution, it’s a common sense solution that is backed by data rather than feelings.

seattlebikeblog.com/2024/03/29

Seattle Bike Blog · Bellevue Council torches their Vision Zero plan, refuses to stand against unfounded attacks on city staffThe news out of the Bellevue City Council this week was extremely disappointing. The council decided to backtrack on their Vision Zero commitment and all but toss out most of the Bike Bellevue netw…
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