In an average checkered square North American city, every second street or avenue reserved to any and all personal transportation not larger than a cargo trike, not longer than a tandem bike. From there you can have one ways, two ways, fast lanes, non-powered lanes, longer green lights than cross car streets, overpass, underpass, etc. The Works.<p>You keep boulevards and any street with speed limitations over 30mph to cars and trucks. You arrange for permanent secured and weatherized personal parking and storage areas on street sides, back alleys, and/or other public places<p>It's that simple. No change to zoning, no fancy street rebuilding, nothing else different from what already is.<p>Your street doesn't have cars in it? You park next street. You're disabled and can't walk a hundred feet? Get a trike. Or a folding anything you shove in the trunk of your car. Delivery companies can do cargo trikes.<p>But hey, let's be real for a moment and acknowledge you'd instantly get giant pickup truck twats ramming into bike lanes for not liking where evolution goes. As always.
I take my child to day care every day with an e-bike. We both love it.<p>I have a second, more cargo oriented, e-bike on back order. If anyone from rad powered bikes is reading this I think your decision to use proprietary tire sizes for your cargo bikes was insanely stupid.
The city of Stockholm has recently started an ebike service where you can have unlimited rides for the eqivalent price of a pizza per _year_! Probably to compete with all the e-scooter companies. It is the best deal ever and I really hope it can reduce the high amounts of car dependency here. I've even stopped buying a bus card since this ends up being about 100x times cheaper per year
I really wanted to get an e-bike, but as a Londoner with decent public transport, it's so rarely worth it over tube/bus (and when it is, I'll opt for renting a lime bike instead)