Denver has done it, but will Mayor Mendenhall’s budget pitch for electric bike incentives put more people on two wheels?
, has about 12 “regular” bicycles in her garage. But her cargo e-bike is her go-to when she takes trips to Costco or Home Depot. She can also easily transport her “big 80-pound lunk of a dog in the basket.”About 15 years ago Oxborrow broke her hip. But even when she’s having a “bad leg day” she can still ride uphill and for longer periods of time with the help of an e-bike.
The pandemic bike boom has slowed, but not for e-bikes, Jacobsen said. E-bikes have brought “non-cyclists into a cycling community,” he said. “It allows them to get on a bike, or stay riding a lot longer.” Anyone affiliated — however loosely — with the institution could take advantage of a 10% to 25% discount. “We knew that if we could help people get to the university in a more green way, and to clear the air, then we’d be promoting sustainability, of course,” Cannon said.
“We have had a lot of requests to revive that program because it was so popular,” Cannon said. So far, no money has been set aside to do so again.“We’re thinking strategically about how to get our state Legislature to invest in this as well,” Oxborrow said. However, the request to fund an e-bike rebate program on the state level didn’t make the final cut. “There wasn’t a negative response,” Oxborrow said, but the list of funding priorities is long.
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