{"id":10652,"date":"2021-05-26T08:05:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T08:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/?p=10652"},"modified":"2021-05-25T22:27:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T22:27:34","slug":"electric-bike-project-rolled-out-in-vancouver-to-reduce-congestion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/electric-bike-project-rolled-out-in-vancouver-to-reduce-congestion\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric bike project rolled out in Vancouver to reduce congestion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.gov.bc.ca\/gov\/content\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Province of British Columbia (BC)<\/a> is partnering with the City of Vancouver to support a cargo e-bike micro hub project that will help reduce traffic congestion and air pollution around the city.<\/p>\n<p>The hub is a delivery facility where packages can be transferred from trucks, stored and then delivered by cargo e-bike to the final delivery point.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith COVID-19, there has been a surge in online shopping, same-day shipping and home delivery, increasing the number of delivery trucks on BC\u2019s roads,\u201d said Rob Fleming, Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis project will support efficient last-mile delivery that does not add congestion, noise or air pollution to Vancouver\u2019s busy downtown core,\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The micro hub, which launches in June, will run for 14 months.<\/p>\n<p>It is hoped the hub will also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Address issues, such as double-parking, circling to find loading\/parking and related congestion.<\/li>\n<li>Improve road safety from having fewer larger vehicles.<\/li>\n<li>Be a more efficient use of road space, enabling reallocation to walking\/cycling\/public space in the longer term.<\/li>\n<li>Reduce black carbon and other air and waterway pollutants from tires.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Province of British Columbia (BC) is partnering with the City of Vancouver to support a cargo e-bike micro hub project that will help reduce traffic congestion and air pollution around the city. The hub is a delivery facility where packages can be transferred from trucks, stored and then delivered by cargo e-bike to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":10653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}