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Text: Amazon’s electric cargo bikes have arrived in DC.
Image: A four-wheeled vehicle that appears to be a cross between a bicycle, a go-cart, and a mini-truck
Response text from high t alpha shemale @gluetaster: that’s not a cargo bike man that’s a loopholemobile
I visited Hamburg (number of years ago), and I couldn’t believe how much worse the bike lanes were compared to my pretty car-centric city’s bike lanes (Melbourne, Australia).
A bike tour through Italy opened my eyes to this.
There was no usable bike infrastructure at all, most of the time.
One of the campsites we went to was only accessible via a 4-lane road with dividers.
But drivers crossed all the way into the other lane to pass us. At one point, a driver stayed behind us and put his hazard lights on when passing wasn’t possible, then gave us a thumbs-up when he could pass safely.
I’d rather share the road with drivers like that than have German bike lanes and German drivers.
Of course I’d much rather have Dutch bike lanes and Dutch drivers.