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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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How very very strange. Only ever happened every single time it was tried. Whenever cyclist friendly policies are enacted, people actually cycle more and drive cars less. It's a total mystery.
Am baffled.
Science can't explain it.
"Subsidies go in, e-bikes go out. You can't explain that."
It's almost like people don't actually like driving everywhere and buying $40,000 cost centers. This is truly bizarre.
$40,000 cost centers that quickly lose value and incur huge maintenance and fuel costs, no less.
And if it tried to, it would get pushed in front of a ford F-350.