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![Motherload film screening highlights opportunity to boost cargo bike use
A film screening organised by Spokes on Tuesday 2nd September signals the potential for increased use of cargo bikes in Edinburgh for deliveries and child transport.
The free Edinburgh screening is at the Augustine United Church, George IV Bridge at 7.15 (doors open 6.30 for coffee, stalls and chat).
The 2019 documentary film “Motherload” relates a mother’s experience of how cargo bikes can be an antidote to the increasing isolation, disconnection, and planetary impact of life in C21.
Film maker Liz Canning tells how she felt trapped as a suburban new mother in car-dependant Fairfax, California. Liz then discovered how a cargo bike could turn shopping trips with twin babies into a sensory stimulating exploration of their local community.
She sold the family car and embarked on an exploration of how bicycles have empowered women and the poor since the 1980s. Successful crowdfunding paid for the production of the Motherload film, which has been shown in more than 600 venues across the world.
The meeting will then hear from local organisations in the forefront of the growth in cargobike use in Edinburgh.
The Bike Station is continuing the work of former CargoBikeMovement. Banzai [Bruntsfield Area Net Zero Action Initiative] and Porty Community Energy run cargo bike libaries in Bruntsfield and Portobello. Cycling Gardeners of Edinburgh is a small business using cargo bikes as their main form of transport.
Ian Maxwell from Spokes comments that: “This event will raise awareness of the benefits of cargo bike use and consider how it can be further developed in Edinburgh. There will also be information from the organisations speaking and some cargo bikes will be on display.”
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Spokes is the Lothian Cycle Campaign – a non party political voluntary organisation, founded in 1977, and now with a membership of over 1000. SPOKES has a long history of effective campaigning for better conditions for cyclists…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2ood4k4wojq5jku2zl3myqco/bafkreib4ekv4slgbsjjmbmy645ox3k5x2my7ujf3rzuetxwvyedpchbp34)
