The popularity of e-bikes isn’t slowing down

Re:The popularity of e-bikes isn’t slowing down by chrisseaton on Monday November 08, 2021 @09:47PM (#29157130)

> Housing within bicycle commuting distance (under 5 miles) in many cities is abundant

Housing isn’t abundant within 50 miles of London and other similar major cities, let alone 5.

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Re:The popularity of e-bikes isn’t slowing down by cjrp on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @04:49AM (#29159589)

It's true, but with a folding bike your criteria for a house can now be "fewer than 5 miles away from a tube/train line" and let the public transport do the heavy lifting.

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Re:The popularity of e-bikes isn’t slowing down by barry-cotter on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @02:12AM (#29158686)

That's a fact about policy choices, not something that can't be changed. If building housing wasn't illegal it would be built. Developers love money and the Green Belt is quite big enough to spare one Mnahattan's area if it was politically possible to build a Manhattan's worth of housing on it.

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Re:The popularity of e-bikes isn’t slowing down by chrisseaton on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @06:24AM (#29160223)

> That's a fact about policy choices, not something that can't be changed.

Ok but now we’ve moved from ‘bicycling is relatively practical’ to ‘it’d be relatively practical if only everything about our politics and built environment was instantly completely different.’

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Re:The popularity of e-bikes isn’t slowing down by pharmakom on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @02:34AM (#29158827)

Consider that a comparable amount of space is dedicated to car parking as parks in London.

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Re:The popularity of e-bikes isn’t slowing down by aigo on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @03:30AM (#29159101)

And there are a lot of parks and green spaces in London!

The amount of on street car parking in zones 2-3 is insane. Now that actually IS a subsidy to rich people.

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