In Denver, e-bike vouchers run out as fast as Taylor Swift tickets

At 11 a.m. on the last Wednesday of February, Denver opened the first application window of the year for its e-bike rebate program, which offers residents upfront rebates of $300 to $1,400 for a battery-powered bicycle. Within three minutes, all of the vouchers for low and moderate income applicants had been claimed. By 11:08 a.m., the rebates for everyone else were gone too, and the portal closed. Even in its third year, Denver’s ambitious campaign to get residents to swap some of their driving for riding remains as popular as...