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Bicycle deliveries are on the rise in Boston

Couriers make comeback with unusual loads

By Katie Johnston

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 23, 2012

Steak dinners and sofas are just a few of the items being schlepped around the city on two wheels, and sometimes three, as more local companies use bicycles and cargo trikes to deliver goods. Reasons range from the environmental to the efficient to the economical; it’s also an eye-catching advertising opportunity, with pedal-powered delivery vehicles turning heads that wouldn’t have budged for an ordinary delivery van.

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