{"id":14390,"date":"2012-05-03T10:36:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T16:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=14390"},"modified":"2012-05-03T10:36:31","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T16:36:31","slug":"cargo-bike-sharing-platform-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/cargo-bike-sharing-platform-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Cargo Bike Sharing Platform Goes Online in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/cargo-bike.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14391\" title=\"cargo bike\" src=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/cargo-bike.jpg\" alt=\"cargo bike\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/cargo-bike.jpg 500w, https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/cargo-bike-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cargo bikes are useful for all sorts of things: from bringing home groceries to <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/2010\/11\/cargo-bike-green-business\/\">delivering soup<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/2010\/11\/cargo-trikes-food-needy\/\">collecting food for the needy<\/a>. But for those trips which don&#8217;t require cargo capacity (most of them), do you really want to lug around that extra equipment? And if you&#8217;re only going to use it for some trips, do you really want to shell out the extra bucks for a cargo bike?<\/p>\n<p>Now, there&#8217;s another option (well, at least if you live in Germany): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.velogistics.net\/en\/\">Velogistics<\/a> is an online cargo bike sharing system. Need to make a Cartrip to the grocery store? Boot up and find a nearby cargo bike owner that will rent you his\/her ride.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greenlivingideas.com\/2012\/05\/02\/a-global-platform-for-p2p-cargo-bike-sharing\/\">Lynn Fang at Green Living Ideas<\/a> has all the details, so go take a look&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Image credit:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/vikapproved\/4620584970\/in\/photostream\/\">vikapproved at Flickr<\/a> under a <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/2.0\/deed.en\">Creative Commons license<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cargo bikes are useful for all sorts of things. But for those trips which don&#8217;t require cargo capacity (most of them), do you really want to lug around that extra equipment? 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