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Aren't cargo bikes a viable option?
At the face of it, it seems plausible to me that cargo bikes do not offer the capacity needed to guarantee same-day delivery to all of those who currently use such services.
That is not entirely true, in fact in Europe there is a trend of replacing delivery vans with cargo ebikes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R63DdEe_8aM
Please note that the question is not whether delivery vans can be replaced by cargo bikes. In most situations, the answer is clearly yes, no doubt.
It's about whether cargo bike-based delivery can guarantee the same level of service that customers expect now from delivery vans, or that, indeed as the Dutch politician warns, people will have to accept that same-day delivery can no longer be promised.