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Re:Europe is edging towards making post-car cities a reality by minikomi on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @04:17AM (#20623258)
I hope this works -- street view of in front of a Japanese kindergarten. Electric 2 seater bikes are the name of the game here for 2 child families.

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.675605,139.6796798,3a,75y,22...

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Re:Europe is edging towards making post-car cities a reality by magduf on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @12:51PM (#20626971)
Yep, that's what I saw in Japan recently too (both electric and non-electric). Tons of bikes had a child seat, some of them had 2 child seats.

I also loved how (as you can see in this photo), people just park their bike the way you park a car: you just leave it there, without locking it to something. Here in America bikes like that would be stolen left and right. But I guess that's one of the big differences between a highly industrialized and developed nation and a 3rd-world one.

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