Bicycle and Golf Cart Deliveries

Along with other changes necessitated by quarantines, more businesses, particularly restaurants and groceries, are expanding their services to include home delivery. Typically, the delivery service offered is within a five-mile radius of the business. Some of these businesses have begun to use bicycles, golf carts, etc., to make these deliveries to nearby customers. In densely populated areas, choosing to use means other than a vehicle can be faster, cheaper, and more eco-friendly.

This isn’t a new practice for some businesses, particularly pizza deliveries. In places such as college campuses and retirement communities for example, use of bikes and golf carts has been standard practice. Bicycles can go places that cars can’t such as down a narrow alleyway, along a beach or other non-road area, and are more easily maneuvered around heavy traffic areas where there are a lot of traffic lights and stop signs to contend with, as well as in navigating one-way streets. Bikes and golf carts can sometimes circumvent roadways and follow pre-designed paths, such as those designed for the elderly to travel within their designated communities, or in mountainous or beach areas where there are fewer roads. Finding adequate parking space is an added advantage to using these smaller modes of transport for deliveries.