ChiWhoBike #15

Published November 13, 2023
A woman stands smiling looking down at her two young children in a bucket cargo bike standing in a downtown plaza. She is wearing a green sweater and a patterned blue and yellow skirt, and has neck length brown hair and light skin. Two children sit in the black Urban Arrow cargo bike, with a young girl on the left wearing a unicorn helmet and a very young boy on the right wearing a blue helmet with white polka dots. A cardboard sign and a drum are visible in the bike bucket.

This is the Urban Arrow, and the cool thing about it is that you can put the two kids in here and also a bunch of stuff, and if they want to fall asleep or whatever they are super cozy in there, they can have their blanket, they can have their toys and you can also use it to take firewood to the point or really just throw anything in the bucket.

Biking is just a convenient way to get around, like anything that is like just a few miles away. Even like having this and just doing errands around the neighborhood, it’s as convenient as driving but more so, like you don’t have to park, I just roll up to the grocery store and put it right outside the door.

Biking is a great way to get around. It doesn’t clog up the city with cars, it’s environmentally friendly, and if everybody biked then biking would be safer, it would be great.

A lot of people think that biking is not necessarily accessible for people with physical disabilities, but actually my neighbor, who has some mobility issues, she has an electric trike. And so my neighbor has trouble balancing, but the trike works, and that’s an accessibility tool for her. That gets her to be able to go places that would be challenging to walk.

The same family, but with the woman leaning down close to her kids, who are smiling into the camera.
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