micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility
Ebikes, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, longboards, eboards, motorcycles, skates, unicycles, heelies, or an office chair: Whatever floats your goat, this is all things micromobility!
"Transportation using lightweight vehicles such as bicycles or scooters, especially electric ones that may be borrowed as part of a self-service rental program in which people rent vehicles for short-term use within a town or city.
micromobility is seen as a potential solution to moving people more efficiently around cities"
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The real problem is that this article and the argument that it supports is framed from the perspective of a car-centric mindset; which is hilarious since the website is for alternative methods of transportation.
Saying that using fast ebikes forced to share the same space as other larger, faster vehicles (that still can barely keep up with the larger vehicles) will ruin it for ebikes in general is such a mind-boggling statement.
I honestly could give less than a shit if people were going over 35 MPH on a bicycle on a road. As long as that's under the posted limit who cares?
I don't think that's a fair assessment of the article.
There's one sentence about travelling in traffic. It's related to how the police noticed that the bike was likely illegal.
Far more of the article discusses the potential dangers of travelling at 80MPH.
I'm starting to care about these bikes. It's a genuine problem. The paths in my area are mostly mixed use. Walkers, riders, kids, dogs, wheelchairs, everything. A 14yo kid weaving through pedestrian traffic at 60km/h is a disaster waiting to happen.
As the article correctly opines, it's the rest of us with compliant bikes who lose.