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this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2023
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micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility
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Ebikes, bicycles, scooters, longboards, unicycles: 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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I live in NYC too. I get that there are a lot of delivery workers zipping around on e-bikes. And yeah, it’s a little annoying and dangerous.
But I’m in WAY more danger and am way more consistently shocked by the stupidity of car drivers in this city. Blatantly running red lights, speeding, going up one way streets (in my neighborhood it happens plenty), doing real stupid shit where they shouldn’t/don’t have the time nor space…just because we’ve for some reason grown to think of cars as inevitable, we ignore just how insane the space we’ve sacrificed to them is. Think of how much public space is dedicated to cars. It’s like we live in a car’s world.
In the city! Barely anyone truly needs cars here. And somehow people decide to sit through hours of traffic to not take the train. And they block bike lanes because they’re running errands and double park, the trucks have to squeeze through and then THEY block the bike lanes—or even the walking lanes! The car situation in the city is off the fuckin wall. The e-bike situation by comparison is fuckin nothin.