{"id":1784,"date":"2019-06-19T17:56:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T17:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrisbrownrealestate.ca\/blog\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2019-06-19T17:56:28","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T17:56:28","slug":"bc-offering-850-rebate-to-scrap-your-old-car-and-buy-an-e-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisbrownrealestate.ca\/blog\/bc-offering-850-rebate-to-scrap-your-old-car-and-buy-an-e-bike\/","title":{"rendered":"BC offering $850 rebate to scrap your old car and buy an e-bike"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bikes like the Rocky Mountain Altitude Power Play make cycling accessible to more people. Learn more at https:\/\/www.bikes.com\/en\/stories\/introducing-altitude-powerplay<\/p><\/div>\n

The provincial government and CleanBC have released a new strategy to promote cleaner, more active transportation.<\/p>\n

\u201cMove. Commute. Connect.,\u201d is the theme of the strategy.<\/p>\n

The strategy\u2019s main goal is to double the percentage of trips taken with active transportation by 2030. Currently, the percentage of trips made with a bicycle within BC is 2.5%.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur government is focused on protecting the environment and working in partnership with communities to improve our walking, cycling, and other active networks,\u201d said George Heyman, Minister of Environment and Climate Change Strategy. \u201cBy making it easier for people to move around our communities using active transportation, we cut down on carbon pollution and help make life better for people.\u201d<\/p>\n

The plan includes a number of incentive programs to encourage active transportation, one of them being a \u201cscrap-it\u201d e-bike rebate.<\/p>\n

It provides an incentive of $850 towards the purchase of a new e-bike to people who scrap their high-polluting vehicles.<\/p>\n

\u201cTechnology improvements, such as e-bikes, have helped to make cycling more viable over long distances and provide a cycling option for people of different ages and abilities,\u201d reads a\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0from CleanBC. \u201cHowever, e-bikes are significantly more expensive than regular bicycles.\u201d<\/p>\n

In-depth details about the rebate program, such as how to be accepted into the program and what qualifies as a \u201chigh-polluting vehicle,\u201d have yet to be explained.<\/p>\n

The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure will also provide funding to promote \u201cLearn to Ride\u201d programs and safer routes to schools, as a means of making active transportation more accessible to youth.<\/p>\n

Read more:
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\u201cOur government is focused on protecting the environment and working in partnership with communities to improve our walking, cycling, and other active networks,\u201d said George Heyman, Minister of Environment and Climate Change Strategy. \u201cBy making it easier for people to move around our communities using active transportation, we cut down on carbon pollution and help make life better for people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,117],"tags":[628,627,626],"class_list":["post-1784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-planning","category-infrastructure","tag-bike-to-work-week","tag-commute","tag-e-bikes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbrownrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbrownrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbrownrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbrownrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbrownrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbrownrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1786,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbrownrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions\/1786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbrownrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbrownrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbrownrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbrownrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}