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It makes my day every single time I go riding through the city and I see cargo bikes. So many families are using them now, it's rare for me to make a trip to aldi and not see at least one cargo bike locked up.
Must be nice! I've never seen one irl and at their local price, I'm sure it would get stolen in a heartbeat unfortunately. Hopefully it gets more adoption in my area at well someday!
I'm sure it would get stolen in a heartbeat unfortunately.
This is like saying a car would get stolen immediately. If you can't afford an adequate lock for an expensive bike, you can't afford the bike to begin with.
(Not as in, you're too poor to buy the bike. As in, it's part of the total cost of ownership you need to budget for.)
Bicycles stand out too much in Australia. If it's unique and cool, people will fuck with it. Furthermore, it's far easier to physically pick up a bike and chuck it in the back of a van than a car, and not very many people are going to interrupt a thief using bolt cutters, particularly if they're wearing hi-vis.
So you're left with needing angle grinder resistant locks, with none of the portable ones being long enough to fasten around the body and any fixed stand so you have to get creative about where you park, and even then somebody might just unbolt the fixed point. Creative means it might be away from other bikes and or cameras, reducing security.
Then there's no clearly visible registration so even if you report a lost bike, nobody will easily be able to tell if the one being ridden by is yours or someone else's...
Eliminate theft and you're still left with vandals, and there are a LOT of destructive people with plenty of time on their hands...
I sold my car last year and barely gave it a secomd thought (I still have access to a car on weekends). Money, environment and space-saving were all factors.
I don't think government should be in the business of subsidising driving (which is currently the case in multiple ways). Instead that money should be used to make public and active transport safe, convenient and reliable.
Many countries were designed for cars... Gonna take gemerations to undo it if the corpos even let us.
So much grift connected to car industry. in Us, road construction is a good biz ... Maintenance is mehh
this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2024
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