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micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility

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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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A 33-year-old man was charged with throwing 11 electric scooters into Idaho's Snake River.

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[–] litchralee@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

All the more reason these electric scooters should be parked on the street, ideally displacing car parking. If the law doesn't permit that, the law should change.

In a way, it would be a democratic way to show how public space should be allocated. If a place has more app-based electric scooters than cars parked beside the curb, then perhaps the local council should take the hint and build infrastructure to better accommodate those users. If there aren't many scooters, then no harm no foul.