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It's nice to see larger outlets talking about urbanism topics and Vox has made a few videos in this area recently.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

How can we make life even more dangerous and difficult for delivery drivers? Now they can't even hope to escape the weather even a little. Let alone the dangers of biking in traffic. Making the excuse that we should improve bike safety does absolutely nothing to save lives now and is pretty fucking insensitive and elitist.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Why's it taking so long for that couch I ordered to get here?

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

No thank you. This can work in maybe a small town. Or a small NY neighborhood.

But in most situations:

  • A fleet of bikers is more expensive than a single van. I'm referring to human cost.

  • The amount of product that gets shipped cannot scale with how many bikers we would need.

  • the weight of products puts more physical labor on the biker.

  • A biker carrying 500lbs of product on the road is dangerous for everyone. Products falling. Losing control over their bike. You can create artificial limits, and companies will ALWAYS hit the max and go a bit more. Always been the case.

This isn't solving the root issues, of why people hate cars, which is Single occupancy cars flooding highways and creating pollution.

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