Solarpunk Travel

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Community for those focused on sustainable travel. Our society's current levels of energy intensive and frequent travel are not compatible with life on a finite planet. We advocate for long-term slow travel to see the world, and low energy local travel to deeply experience your community. Green washing free zone.

related to sustainable travel:

[email protected] ← open to all train chatter (but note the instance is centered on the midwest USA)
[email protected] ← UK Rail and Trains
[email protected] ← UK public transport

related to travel generally:

[email protected] ← general travel
[email protected] ← general travel (this whole instance devoted to travel but note there is an instance-wide no politics rule there)
[email protected] ← Europe focus

The communities listed above are decentralized. Centralized instances are omitted as they go against the fedi purpose and it’s better to cultivate digital rights in the free world. That means instances that have a disproportionately large population or are centralized on Cloudflare are not listed.

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In Denver, e-bike vouchers run out as fast as Taylor Swift tickets | Eliminates 170,000 vehicle miles traveled per week. (grist.org)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Property crime is also pretty high so I’m still nervous about bringing them anywhere I’ll be away from it for an extended period, too.

Buy two different kinds of locks. Many thieves master 1 or 2, maybe 3 locks but not much beyond that. So if you pick two different locks most of them will be stifled enough to move along to someone else’s bike. More importantly: the best security is a good insurance policy.

(Even though to a bike thief it ends up just being a really heavy manual bike, I am not sure enough that they care.)

The battery and motor alone are typically ~$1k new.