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posted by janrinok on Friday February 17 2017, @12:38AM   Printer-friendly
from the damn-these-hills dept.

Getting around on a bicycle can be an excellent way to clean up our daily commutes and errand runs, but sometimes you need a little bit of a boost, which is where electric bikes come in. And sometimes you need a little more space to haul groceries and gear with you, which is where cargo bikes come in. Combine the two, and you've got an efficient and fun way to not only get from point A to point B, but to also get the shopping home in a single trip without having to stack boxes and bags on your rear rack until you're wobbling your way precariously down the road (been there, done that).

The capital of Norway, Oslo, is looking to get more of its citizens out of their cars and onto bikes, and more specifically, onto a set of wheels that is made to haul more than just a single person, in the form of grants covering part of the cost of an electric cargo bike. Last year, the city council offered residents a financial incentive toward buying an electric bike, up to 20% of the purchase price of an e-bike, capped at 5000 kroner (about $600). Now that effort has been extended a bit into an electric cargo bike grant program, which will cover part of the cost of purchase of one of these electric workhorses.

Is it the cost of cargo bikes that keeps people from buying them, or the lack of secure parking in city apartment buildings?


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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 17 2017, @01:29AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 17 2017, @01:29AM (#468034)

    At least other countries are TRYING something to deal with their society's problems. It may not work but it still better than our sitting on our asses bickering with one another on what the situation precisely is until after a catastrophic event or electing a denier-in-chief to stick the country's head in the sand, pretend nothing is wrong and it's running like a well oiled machine because we don't want to deal with reality as it is only as we think it should be...

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday February 17 2017, @01:35AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 17 2017, @01:35AM (#468036) Journal

    Please explain how's examining "What can go wrong?" an outright rejection of the idea?

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 17 2017, @01:50AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 17 2017, @01:50AM (#468040)

      Preemptive admonishment for the trolls that will invariably follow. You asked legitimate questions rather than outright rejection so it wasn't intended to target you.