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micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility

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Ebikes, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, longboards, eboards, motorcycles, skates, 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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[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

When a rider on a rental e-scooter was killed by a driver in a pickup truck, who was found to be responsible for her death for failure to yield, you know what our city did?

Banned rental e-scooters from riding on that road, even though she was killed on a sidewalk when the driver failed to look both ways before coming out of a stop at a gas station. I should add that this road is one that leads to places of employment, several grocery stores, a community centre, a high school, and homes.

The area where she was killed has no cycling infrastructure, despite that road having been expanded from two to four lanes. Nothing was changed, other than banning e-scooters.

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