The defining difference in this study was that participants traded the keys to their personal motor vehicle for the free use of an e-bike for the duration of the loan period, which forced participants to find another method of transportation for any trip they previously would have done by car. [...] Personal transportation methods are highly habitual and the higher degree of disruption caused by losing access to their private vehicle allowed participants to more readily accept the e-bike as a viable alternative.14 Like cities and regions across the world, both the province of Nova Scotia and the Halifax Regional Municipality have identified the promotion of active travel (AT) as an important. [...] Sue found herself calculating the cost of buying an e-bike based on the money she saved: “I’ve been doing the math in my head with the gas and the bridge tolls and everything, and how long I would have to ride the bike to pay it off. [...] Kayla was in the process of buying a house that was a 25- minute highway drive from her work and didn’t foresee herself being able to use an e-bike to cycle there due to the distance and having to cycle on the highway. [...] For a third of the participants, overcoming hills was not confined to features of the natural environment, but to a key active transportation connection in the city - a bridge connecting two communities on either side of the harbour.
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