E-Bikes and escooters are even more convenient. Sustained speed, easy acceleration, wind and hills have almost no impact, not as sweaty. The only way la pulls

E-Bikes and escooters are even more convenient. Sustained speed, easy acceleration, wind and hills have almost no impact, not as sweaty. The only way la pulls this off is with a gigantic conversion of streets to zero cars and e-bikes only. The other aspect that speeds up bike Transit in cities is that you can park far closer, typically and far more quickly than with a car. The sad fact is that in a city if you bike it isn't "if" you get hit by a car it's when. The only way to practically reduce that likelihood are totally separate dedicated pathways for bikes. I wonder if elevated lanes for biking is feasible, since you simply don't have to hold as much weight. Do we really need concrete and steel? Can we do it with Kevlar? In Minneapolis there are two major rail to bike path conversions and they boost the bike ability of the city by an order of magnitude over bike lanes adjacent to car lanes. The paths by the Mississippi River are equally effective. Cities simply don't have the willpower for such projects if rail or other park systems don't provide most of the work. I'm hopeful that the sodium ion battery revolution might result in near zero cost Urban personal transportation within large city limits, car Transit limited to fixed entry points. At some point I predict that a small e-scooter for a single person with a 50 mile range will cost under $50. That will probably require sodium sulfur technologies and maybe some solid state technologies. That scooter will be collapsible and easily carried to an inside point to be recharged.