{"id":217,"date":"2014-07-10T02:06:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T02:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/?p=217"},"modified":"2014-07-10T02:06:20","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T02:06:20","slug":"cargo-bike-undergoing-renaissance-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/?p=217","title":{"rendered":"Cargo Bike Undergoing Renaissance in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"first\" style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #111111;\">Cargo bikes are undergoing a renaissance in Germany as companies attempt to battle city congestion and pollution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"first\" style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #111111;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/UPSCargoCruiser.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-218\" src=\"http:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/UPSCargoCruiser.jpg\" alt=\"UPSCargoCruiser\" width=\"450\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/UPSCargoCruiser.jpg 450w, https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/UPSCargoCruiser-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/UPSCargoCruiser-100x61.jpg 100w, https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/UPSCargoCruiser-150x91.jpg 150w, https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/UPSCargoCruiser-200x122.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\">The bikes were popular at the start of last century before the car dominated transport, and in the past five years they have regained popularity as a means of moving light freight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\">The German government wants to see more freight moved by cargo bike instead of truck or car and spends more than 80 million euros every year supporting cycling infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\">Transport ministry spokeswoman Birgitta Worringen says more than three-quarters of all journeys in Germany are less than 10 kilometres and cargo bikes can deliver all sorts of uses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a good means of transport which doesn&#8217;t make any noise or pollution,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2014-06-17\/cargo-bikes-undergoing-a-renaissance-in-germany\/5529488\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2014-06-17\/cargo-bikes-undergoing-a-renaissance-in-germany\/5529488<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cargo bikes are undergoing a renaissance in Germany as companies attempt to battle city congestion and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/?p=217\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cargo Bike Undergoing Renaissance in Germany<\/span> Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,7,6],"tags":[3,42,36],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cargobikes","category-goodnews","category-spcnews","tag-cargobike","tag-europe","tag-germany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}