Maybe the cargo bike with the longest history of use in Salem is the Salem Weekly Wagon.While biking through downtown yesterday - there was publisher AP out doing his delivery in front of Wild Pear and Cooke's!
The cargo trike carries much more than a person, is easy for the frequent stops along the block face for delivery to retail racks and street-side boxes, and is maximally low-carbon.
That's a win!
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I was just talking yesterday about how fun the big trikes look, prompted by a trike and trailer from Naked Juice outside my office window yesterday.
But isn't he riding on the sidewalk in a part of downtown that doesn't allow bike riding on the sidewalk?
Salem's sidewalk ordinance does prohibit bicycling on the sidewalk downtown.
There are exceptions - like police, for example. Just as freight deliveries can block the bike lane temporarily, bike freight delivery at a walking pace on the sidewalk seems even more benign. If it's not a legal exception, it should be!
And it since AP is downtown a lot, I have to believe the police would cite or warn him if he were biking in an impermissible way.
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