Grocery shopping with a bakfiets (or service roads, parking, and trip-chaining)
Channel: bike bike nudge nudge
Date: 2022-08-24

Grocery shopping should be a task that is easy to do by cargo bike. The topic is typically covered by any cycling channel that does a one-off video on cargo bikes. In this video, I discuss three aspects of my usual grocery shopping trip: service roads, parking, and trip-chaining.
I talk about why service roads are bad cycling infrastructure and suggest why you should push back against your city if it thinks service roads are good enough for people on bikes.
I cover one aspect of Donald Shoup's book, the High Cost of Free Parking. If you are biking to where there is free parking, you are subsidizing everyone who drives.
Lastly, I discuss why trip-chaining is a problem in a cargo bike. Currently, my only solution is to eat snacks outside by the bikes while my wife runs the actual errand.

#bakfiets #bike #cargobike #cycling