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No, there should not be street side parking on most streets as this becomes a huge hazard for cyclists with uni students randomly swerving in and out to deliver
by baroffoos 7y ago
No, there should not be street side parking on most streets as this becomes a huge hazard for cyclists with uni students randomly swerving in and out to deliver a pizza or people carelessly swinging doors open to get out of a taxi without looking.
Inside a city, for most kinds of deliveries, it would be more efficient to have people deliver by e-bikes. A bike with a trailer or large bag is an incredibly efficient way to deliver most kinds of items since you can simply pull up to the front door of the place you want to deliver to and unload the items. Sure you still have the issue with very large items but most people aren't ordering a new bed very often at all.
- cududa 7y agoBicyclists are pretty reckless in their driving. It’s extremely rare to see one actually stop at a traffic signal and not just blow through when they have momentum. As for package size ... I’m not sure there’s much of anything delivered to my building on a daily basis that could be transported up hill by bike.
- baroffoos 7y agoI suggested ebikes and trailers which makes it fairly easy to move anything of up to about 40kg and smaller than a tv box. I have ridden a bike pulling a trailer of 20kg up to the top of a mountain and it was quite do able but with an ebike it would be trivial. Most packages that people order are very small items that could fit in one hand and suit this method very well.
- catalogia 7y agoYou might be onto something here. The last delivery I received was a chair; it came unassembled but was still fairly bulky. I'd pay a small premium to watch somebody try to carry it on a bicycle because that sounds hilarious. More seriously, most small items are shipped in packaging that's much too large. Solve that problem and non-truck delivery becomes a lot more feasible. Still not feasible for some packages though.
- baroffoos 7y agoA chair is something you would likely still deliver by truck but most of the items I have received and seen others receive come in a small box or a bubble wrap plastic sleeve. Or they are food items. These are all ideal for delivering by bike and in my city they mostly are.
- jcims 7y agoMore efficient by which metric? It's going to take 30+ ebike trips to cover a full delivery truck with a lot of deadhead trips to pick up more packages. How much are you paying them? Same rates as the drivers? Good luck!