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micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility
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"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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Of course my experience and observations are limited. I've only lived 10 places in Canada.
On weather, when I lived in Yellowknife, it was easier, faster, and cheaper to hop on my bike; than to plug in for 30-120 minutes, idle for 15, and then drive. But that's obviously a pretty compact place. So it's probably more condusive than a southern city like Edmonton. And there's no major hills or mountains to speak of.
Not every place is going to have the same solutions; but a big number of cities can get a lot of trips done with improve transit.
The point is that we need to be doing things to reduce vehicle trips. If bicycle trips are only viable for 7 months a year, that's 7 months less vehicle trips.
If you can only do 50% of you to errands without a car, that's 50% less errands. We have a culture around driving everywhere, and we need to break considering other trips trips are alternatives to driving. Trips where we are driving should only be the ones with no viable alternatives.
And yet you argue all my points that this isn't a good solution for us. I never said it wasn't good for elsewhere. I get the point and I'm on board with reducing driving- and trust me I do my part, but you are never going to get a busy tradesperson riding their cargo around in January. If a solution is only going to work when the weather is perfect it isn't going to convince anyone who has to actually haul around the stuff to switch and that's the biggest hurdle to jump.
I'm sure this would be great in lots of places where it isn't below zero for over half the year.