It’s nice to see larger outlets talking about urbanism topics and Vox has made a few videos in this area recently.

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      Yeah, we already see these in places like NYC. There’s definitally room to make improvment in select areas like that

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      It looks like they believe they can replace 10% of Vans with bikes if they use Vans or trucks to move stuff to local pickup points and can thereby replace 10% of their vans with bikes in very dense urban core. This is interesting but underwhelming.

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        Where did you get 10% from, the article says

        Recent estimates from Europe suggest that up to 51% of all freight journeys in cities could be replaced by cargo bike