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E-bike power limit: BA and ACT urge bike industry to resist 500W proposal
(www.globalcyclingnetwork.com)
this post was submitted on 14 Apr 2024
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micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility
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"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 answer is Amsterdam in the early 2000s when 50cc scooters completely took over the bike infrastructure and created absolute havok on the way pedestrians and cyclists interacted. People were literally getting run over in a daily basis because the infrastructure was designed to isolate bikes from cars, not pedestrians. And that's in a place where actual thought was out into cycling.
In most of the world, people on bikes already recklessly ride around in the sideways, so waves of people going 30mph, running into crowds of pedestrians is a formula for disaster.