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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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Can it really be legal for motorcycles to run red lights? The answer in some places is "Yes." Here's why, and a list of every state where this is the law.

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[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

I fail

I agree.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

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