_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.worksM to micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months ago'Pretty remarkable': UBC study finds e-bike rebates led to decreased car usebc.ctvnews.caexternal-linkmessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up1218arrow-down15cross-posted to: ubc
arrow-up1213arrow-down1external-link'Pretty remarkable': UBC study finds e-bike rebates led to decreased car usebc.ctvnews.ca_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.worksM to micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square50fedilinkcross-posted to: ubc
minus-squareDiplomjodler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up70·edit-27 months agoHow very very strange. Only ever happened every single time it was tried. Whenever cyclist friendly policies are enacted, people actually cycle more and drive cars less. It’s a total mystery.
minus-squareDiplomjodler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·7 months agoScience can’t explain it.
minus-squareIsoprenoid@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 months ago“Subsidies go in, e-bikes go out. You can’t explain that.”
minus-squareconditional_soup@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 months agoIt’s almost like people don’t actually like driving everywhere and buying $40,000 cost centers. This is truly bizarre.
minus-squareJustas🇱🇹@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 months ago$40,000 cost centers that quickly lose value and incur huge maintenance and fuel costs, no less.
minus-squareSkyezOpen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 months agoAnd if it tried to, it would get pushed in front of a ford F-350.
How very very strange. Only ever happened every single time it was tried. Whenever cyclist friendly policies are enacted, people actually cycle more and drive cars less. It’s a total mystery.
Am baffled.
Science can’t explain it.
“Subsidies go in, e-bikes go out. You can’t explain that.”
It’s almost like people don’t actually like driving everywhere and buying $40,000 cost centers. This is truly bizarre.
$40,000 cost centers that quickly lose value and incur huge maintenance and fuel costs, no less.
And if it tried to, it would get pushed in front of a ford F-350.