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I'd probably feel differently if I had to ride through that on my morning commute, but presumably replacing diesel delivery trucks with (even obnoxious) electric bikes is on balance a good thing? As for trucks and buses parking in the bike lanes, in most states unfortunately traffic laws provide loopholes for that, sadly.

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They aren't replacing delivery trucks that stock stores, it's adding to personal deliveries usually done by normal bike or sometimes car depending on the traffic density.

Amazon deliveries in NYC are done by a mix of bikes with trailers, the US Postal Service, Amazon's own Sprinter vans, and third-party contractors using their own vehicles (e.g. Lasership). The bikes and trailers are replacing these vehicles, not a normal bike.

Not if the people who ride bikes switch to driving because it’s more dangerous or slow to bike.

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