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Urban transport | Two wheels good | The Economist

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

It is no sweat to restart, so the temptation to zip through a red traffic light, menacing people as you do so, is removed. As your correspondent waits at a light, a fit pedal cyclist pulls up beside her. The pedals are there should you wish to use them. And there is no battle of wills between pedestrian and cyclist. “What is it?