Extremely cool article. Only one point I disagree wih with

Many people assume that handcarts go on the road, with the cars, or on the cycling path. That’s not the case: you use it on the sidewalk.

Jean Merrill documented The Pushcart War about this exact allocation of road space. Push carts belong on the road, don't let car propaganda tell you otherwise.

Caveat: i say this from a systems perspective that cart SHOULD be on the road. Not a personal safety perspective where one might want to take the sidewalk.

"rediscovering"!

when was it forgotten?

I love this. It's really practical for a city. Though I'm wondering about the sail idea now on more rural roads. Roads turn this way and that, and the wind shifts. You'd need someone sitting in the thing orienting the sail. I wonder if you made it a little larger with a largish sail and you had a driver on roller blades and a sailor sitting in it catching the wind how fast could you get it going? Depends on the wind, I guess, but a boat probably has more friction in the water and sailboats go pretty fast.

Ooh, maybe you could add an outrigger, a pole that slides left and right with a wheel on either side, to keep it from tipping.

Joke's on you, we never undiscovered the handcart. Or horse carts. Or ox carts. Or four-wheeled carts used by hawkers. Or four-wheeled carts with a motorcycle embedded in it. Or a bicycle-drawn cart. Or a bicycle-pushed cart. Or a cart some insane dude frankensteined together with a diesel generator to make the buggy of doom.

The site has a feed! That's great :D

Funny. I now want one. Idk why, I kind of never transport large stuff and if I do our cargo bike suits me well enough. But now I want a hand cart.

We have a detachable bike trailer (2 big wheels and a tiny one in the front), that we're using as a handcart and/or stroller when taking short trips to the grocery store/supermarket. I can confirm it works well!

Very cool article

Rediscovering? I see people using hand carts of various sorts all the time. Thoug most without a sail, that is kinda cool.

Need to move 40 concrete blocks around my house to dispose of them? Wheelbarrow makes it only a tiring job rather than completely exhausting!