[...]“We’ve spent close to £130m on repairing infrastructure damaged by [Storm] Dennis and £30m on flooding infrastructure in the last five or six years[...]A purchase price of £2.3m has been agreed in principle. Additional relocation assistance, incidental and legal costs and land transaction tax takes the total to about £2.57m.
I'm not a mathematician, but that did not sound as a cost effective infrastructure budget in the first place
[...]“I would have loved them to fix [the river] but there’s nothing else they can do. You’d be a fool to think there isn’t climate change … The weather has changed, it’s as simple as that,” he said.
To this day, it still sounds weird when I hear we should "fix" a river, when said rivers usually took hundreds of years to arrive at their current course. In that case, it's even worse in my view, as it was diverted back in 1930's for a mining operation
I do wonder what they are going to do with that area, as the article doesn't mention anything. Hopefully they restore it to their natural habitat, which usually works better for flood management than man made structures.
Do you really need another reason?
I'm joking, btw. It should also be easier to maneuver and less likely to roll over when turning, though I’m not sure how often that’s an issue with regular cargo bikes or trikes, since they’re not usually ridden at high speeds
There is also a cargo frame which is quite modular and you can change as needed depending on your needs, so you can attach a basket in case you prefer it