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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Should be a very simple thing: 1 general law that says that such systems must be built reasonably and work properly. Every person can now sue the city that still operates such a perverted sensor.
And then they let every one of their "states" make their own laws for road traffic. No wonder...
You gotta stop on the groove. Some intersections have a little motorcycle painted to indicate that you should stop at that specific spot to trip the light.
I've also heard about people attaching magnets to the bottom of their bikes to try and trigger the EM sensors
I do wish the sensors are marked better in some intersections, but in my city there are fairly noticeable black strips on the pavement surface in front of the stop lines. Maybe standards are different where I live because I don't have any issues triggering them with my steel frame bicycle
Or instead of tearing up millions of dollars of infrastructure for literally no reason, just make it legal for motorcyclists to stop, look both ways, and ride across an empty intersection, lol.
Making traffic safer is literally no reason for you?
Well, I disagree.
And if you want to do it all very slowly, you can start making it a requirement for everything that gets built or changed next year and later.
I mean, my preference would be to simply remove all traffic signalling and implement raised pedestrian crossings at all intersections. But no one listens to me.
Meanwhile, I fail to see how this law makes anyone less safe, assuming it is followed appropriately. It is essentially the same law that many cyclists are allowed to follow - stop, look both ways, go if safe. Basically, treat it like a stop sign.
I agree.
Nothing needs to be torn up, they just need to adjust the sensitivity for the inductive loops. They work just fine for bicycles in the Netherlands, and those have way less metal than a motorcycle