"At around 7:30 on a typical weekday morning, Erin Smith hops on her e-bike and rides two blocks to the North Berkeley BART, where she catches a train to San Francisco, then rides three miles from Civic Center to her job at the Cal Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park. Around 8 a.m., Nat Binns maneuvers his cargo e-bike onto Woolsey Street in South Berkeley with his two children, Conor, 6 and Bridget, 3, in back."
"By 4 p.m., 81-year-old Helena Worthen, who lives in the Berkeley Hills, can be found riding her e-bike on the Monterey Avenue bike lane, en route to the Monterey Market. The e-bike makes the hills go away, Worthen said, and it doesn't use gas. But it's fun and easy and replaces the car. She even uses the bike to tote her cello."
"These riders are part of a growing legion of e-bike enthusiasts who can be seen all over town, hauling groceries, children or simply taking in the scenery, replacing cars with a more affordable and earth-friendly form of transport. That motivation to reduce the use of fossil fuels, as vehicle emissions are the leading driver of climate change locally and nationally has also spurred several government programs handing out rebates to make e-bikes affordable to low- and middle-income residents."
Commuters, parents, seniors and families in Berkeley are increasingly using e-bikes for daily travel, errands and school runs. Riders combine e-bikes with transit for longer commutes and use cargo e-bikes to carry children and groceries. E-bikes make steep hills manageable, eliminate gasoline use, and provide a fun, easy alternative to car trips. A growing number of residents choose e-bikes as a more affordable, earth-friendly mode of transport. Local government programs offer rebates to low- and middle-income residents to improve affordability and support reductions in vehicle emissions.
Read at www.berkeleyside.org
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