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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] 17 points 5 months ago (3 children)

The problem in New York is that the e-bike riders are not replacing car riders. They're just pedestrians who want to go faster.

This isn't a win.

When we start seeing e-bikes go through the tunnel as a replacement for cars, that would be a win.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

From the article it sounds like a lot of the complaints are any delivery gig workers, not pedestrians. The gig workers are incentivized to go fast and bike recklessly in a way that pedestrians aren't

Some of the proposals the safety conscious people are suggesting, though, feel a bit harsh to me. I don't want to have to get a licence for a bike that assists me when going up hill. On the other hand, if people are treating these like electric motorcycles then vehicle lisencing makes more sense to me

As for the article, I felt like it was balanced in a way the headline is not

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Sounds like a law so gig workers are paid by the hour would solve more.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Are car drivers not just pedestrians that want to go faster? Each pedestrian that wants to go faster and chooses an E-Bike instead of a car is a win to me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

You know what they mean though. This isn't someone who was a car who is now an ebike. This is someone who was feet or four or two wheels who is now doing 25mph on the sidewalk with no insurance. Once again, infrastructure is stuck catching up with technology, and that's normal, but we are in the middle of it now.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

I don’t see the problem. People can go faster without polluting. That’s a good thing. You can get a lot more people on the road safely this way.