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   𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 (straphanger@urbanists.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Aug-2024 00:23:27 JST 𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

   They say big trucks are just a reality if you want to make deliveries in the city.

   I say there's other ways to solve the "last-mile" problem...

   There's your beer kegs—sorted.

   #London

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     in reply to

     "Bicycles offer advantages in express delivery: they can bypass traffic and make up to 2x as many stops per hour as a truck. Total cost of ownership over lifetime is less than half of a van. And they generate zero emissions."
     —CEO of DHL Express

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     𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 (straphanger@urbanists.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Aug-2024 02:34:14 JST 𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

     in reply to

     #Paris has got your last rites taken care of.

     A small funeral home called “Le Ciel et La Terre” (The Sky and the Earth) uses a bicycle-hearse called “Corbicyclette.”

     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.