Here’s a link to a recent article by the New York Times on urban delivery operator B-Line, out of Portland, OR: In Cargo Delivery, The Three-Wheelers That Could Similar to RR, B-Line operates on a freight-trike platform; however, their trikes all feature heavy-duty electric assist motors. Such trikes are illegal to operate in New York… Continue Reading
At the Infrastructure Forum at the 2013 Farm to City Expo at the Javits Center on 4 March 2013, GrowNYC Executive Director Marcel Van Ooyen, when asked about whether New York State food distribution via rail, barge, LSLEVs, and freight trikes might make sense to support as opposed to the current food distribution methods involving exclusively… Continue Reading
Another in our occasional series on contraptions used to move cityfreight – or in this case, citypromos – about NYC. In this post, RR looks at tuk tuks. These little motorized muggles roll about town generally promoting products, though the final image is one apparently executing wine distribution in Roma!
From time to time, RR captures images of “competition” in our city microfreight logistics space; to wit, contraptions other than freight trikes (aka citypods!) that city enterprises are deploying to move bits of product regularly within a small geographical distance. Take a gander, if it pleases you, at these beasts: