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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Especially in Wellington NZ where we currently have an ongoing problem with people dropping tacks in the cycle-lanes.
What, like on purpose?
Yes, unfortunately so. And it's been going on a long time...
Drivers didn't want to share the road with cyclists. But they also don't want to lose road-space to cycle-lanes.
Sabotaging the lanes has been going on a long time, is quite regular, and seems to span a wide area - I expect there are several culprits. I hope someone gets caught... given the levels of frustration I also hope things don't get ugly when they are caught.
So, the bike lane gets made. The sunk cost is already gone.
They throw tacks on the bike lanes because they don't want to share the road.
The bike lanes don't get used, but the space is still gone.
How do tacks help their cause or is this a "I'm mad and I want other people to suffer" situation?
They'll point to "no one uses them" and argue to remove them and convert back to car lanes.