{"id":2659,"date":"2018-11-29T20:30:32","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T02:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/?p=2659"},"modified":"2018-12-02T08:24:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T14:24:10","slug":"cargobikes-are-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2018\/11\/29\/cargobikes-are-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Cargobikes are the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hat tip to my uncle for this great article about cargo bikes for urban transport of goods. We&#8217;ve had our cargo bike for a number of years now, and as our kids have grown older, the cargo is less kid and more groceries and other household items. I can get to our local grocery or Target and back again far faster on my bike than in our car.<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of interesting tidbits in the article like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>cities are being strangled by trucks and vans: a great deal of freight traffic in urban areas is now comprised of delivery vans (in the UK, van traffic has grown by 71% over the last 20 years, compared to growth of 13% for cars.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>71% ! Can you believe it? I guess when you think of all those Prime Now vans running around&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/carltonreid\/2018\/10\/15\/cargobikes-not-drones-are-the-future-for-urban-deliveries\/#67beaaffe790\">Cargobikes Not Drones Are The Future For Urban Deliveries<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hat tip to my uncle for this great article about cargo bikes for urban transport of goods. We&#8217;ve had our cargo bike for a number of years now, and as our kids have grown older, the cargo is less kid and more groceries and other household items. I can get to our local grocery or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-GT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2659"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2663,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions\/2663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}