micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility
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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I'm personally all for it, in my part of the world.
A fair chunk of bike riders are pretty sane and as good as you'd expect.
Then a large chunk are just terrible. They are mostly young guys, or kids, on the street, doing wheel stands at traffic speeds, with the traffic. Weaving all over the place. Riding on the road without any knowledge of road rules, nor regard for safety.
Yes, we can police them harder. In my opinion though, better to put a barrier to entry in place.
It doesn't need to be a large financial burden, more one that separates the young, erratic and foolish riders, from the sensible ones.
Why not go even further? Pedestrians should also register and pay for option of walking around. Also registration numbers on clothing would be appropriate because they do dumb things, like running, jumping or dancing, all in traffic 🤣
In my country every child (~12yrs) learns basics of road safety and navigation through traffic including recognizing traffic signs. Why don't you push for change of school system and want to throw bureaucracy around like crazy instead?