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EVs are booming but electric bikes are really cutting emissions (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] admiralteal@kbin.social 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Constituency building is absolutely crucial to all of this and often underlooked. It's a virtuous cycle. If you build useful and good infrastructure, people will use it, and the more people who use it the more people who will vote for it and demand it. It's a big part of how car-centric urban design grew so fast and became so sticky in North America, and that same constituency-building is the best way to take streets back for people.

Seeing people on bikes makes people think about biking. Even without the bike paths, being out and about your city on a bike is doing your part to build just a little more constituency for it. On top of it being good for your wallet, the climate, and likely your health.

Now if only I could get the average local bike shop worker to stop being such a colossal gatekeeping prick about ebikes...