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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I wish I could read the comments here. Bikes here are capped at 25km/h. I think 30km/h would be nice, cause that's also the speedlimit in many cities here.
That's wild. City speed limits here are between 55km/h and 70km/h here.
I've always wondered what the commuting use case for these bikes were since they can't keep up with traffic here. I guess now I know lol.
So you don't present a road hazard? Same reason you can't just bicycle down the middle lane of a highway, or why minimum speed limits exist.
Ah, we don't have bike lanes here, pretty much at all. That probably explains it.
Having rural roads at 70km/h is also weird to me. Ours are 90-135km/h, depending on whether there are curves, poorly maintained sections, etc. Most are 105km/h or 120km/h.
We do have plenty of city streets at 70km/h, but nobody rides on them. Like I said, no bike lanes, people will throw things at you if you try.
In my city there's a large portion where we don't even have sidewalks or crosswalks. You have to risk your life to cross the street without a car or motorcycle.
My city doesn't have them most places either. Its kind of okay though, because we have massive block zoning, and nobody is walking 8km in 38C weather for a kebab.
Sucks if you're poor though. My partner literally pays more for their car than everything else combined, because they are disabled and cannot work. The car is like $700 and their rent + groceries is $600.
Wow. That's really cheap for rent though. Is that average where you are?
No, they live in an old houseboat parked on some guy's back patio. My rent and utilities on a 1br is $1100 in the same part of town, and average here is probably $1300 to $1700, depending on neighborhood.
30 kph is fine, but the top speed in the US is 45 kph (Class I vs Class III) feels crazy fast.
Bruh, my electric skateboard can do more than that