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I take you don't have kids to take to school and you get all your groceries delivered to your door by someone on an e-bike?
by rglullis 3y ago
I take you don't have kids to take to school and you get all your groceries delivered to your door by someone on an e-bike?
- coldtea 3y agoThe groceries can be delivered by car or van efficiently, as the same delivery person can also serve other people along the way (as opposed to everybody going to get their groceries with their car indepedently and polluting 10x). Or you know, have supermarkets and grocery stores in walking distance. As for the kids, there is such a thing as a school bus...
- Mountain_Skies 3y agoI take it you didn't bother to read the words commute and job, which implies travel to a workplace to conduct work. While you can combine a commute with a trip to buy groceries, if it happens to be on the way, and drop off/pick up kids at school, if it is on the way and the schedule works out that way, for most that's simply not reality. Note that my post said nothing about giving up one's vehicles, it only mentioned commuting trips for work. Don't add things to comments that aren't there.
- rglullis 3y agoMy point is that "remote work" is orthogonal to car dependency, so why are you bringing this up? I am all for remote work, but even if I had to be commuting to work, I'd be doing by taking the bike, bus or train like I've done my entire life.
- ttrmw 3y agotaking kids to school is actually the reason we just caved and bought a cargo bike, which we're gonna add e-assist to. For a great many people in urban centres, the school run is the most egregiously frustrating car journey and the one most attractive to eliminate