So rather than the chicken and egg, the question is which comes first ... a good electric grid or ebikes?
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250508-rwanda-is-sparking-africas-e-bike-revolution
The heavy load guys on here rarely speak of off road trails and the off roaders don't usually carry heavy loads. You are asking a lot of both bikes and legs. .
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Indeed. The two party system makes any big improvements very difficult ... now it's by design ... with everything reduced to only two parties, they can't present many solutions to any issues, they can't even think beyond an increasingly obsolete left or right view.
Names go first, then nouns, and eventually everything becomes " that green thing on the coffee table" or some other phrase. Since my stories are rarely true, I can still fake my way thru them.
For your infrastructure thread, from the Washington Post...
"an essential truth about bike lanes as weapons of civic planning: They are often installed not to satisfy the barely measurable trickle of residents who pedal to work but mainly to make car traffic worse enough that people will be...