Four wheels bad, but three sehr gut. Germans climb aboard cargo bikes
by Philip Oltermann from Environment | The Guardian on (#4NXDP)
As Berlin tries to switch to greener transport, people are choosing the bike, not the electric car - and it's becoming a status symbol
In a fashionable corner of the capital of Germany, Europe's "car nation", parents picking up or dropping off their offspring have lined the edge of a popular playground with luxury vehicles. There are summery convertibles, wood-panelled multi-seaters and slim racers - but none of them has four wheels.
Jan Edler, an architect, has picked up his son Laszlo from daycare with a Bullitt, a Danish-built cargo bike with a platform spacious enough to fit the one-year-old and the daily grocery shopping.
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