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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle

RARE PHOTOS: Cargo bikes cut congestion and pollution | Vintage Vibes

Parent cycling with children in a cargo bike.
‘Because we have our bike, we don’t need a second car, and we’ve saved a fortune,’ says Ashleigh Phillip. Photograph: Getty

I was surprised to read Adrian Chiles’s takedown of cargo bikes (£3,999 for a cargo bike?! How a new kind of class politics arrived on Britain’s streets, 16 March). His article misses the urgent need to clean our air and free up our roads.

I’m a happy diesel-van-liberated, e-cargo bike user. I use it to get to almost all my jobs as a plumber in London. I carry the tools I need with me and can strap a ladder on.

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