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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 driver who cut across a cyclist before ramming into him was described as a “decent individual” as he was handed a suspended prison sentence.Asif Laher, 55, was driving through Bayswater, London in February 2022 in his silver Mercedes when he turned and cut across Wadea Taibi. A verbal altercation ensued, with Laher “aggressively” banging ... Read more

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[–] JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Reading this only to be recommended an article on a similar incident:

Banned driver avoids jail after hitting 10-year-old cyclist while overtaking bus on wrong side of road in series of “spectacularly stupid, immature, and reckless decisions”

Then reading that, only to be recommended another article on another incident:

Suspended sentence for motorist who killed cyclist with “careless manoeuvre” before driving off and claiming he thought smashed windscreen was caused by falling tree branch

All three incidents in the last three weeks. That's enough internet for today I think.

[–] Ash@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago

I think the only way I would be protected from death on a bicycle would be to wear a star of david. If there was even a wiff of anti semitism, they would be punished, but if I'm just a white brit.. who gives a fuck.

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