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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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If you've never John Forester's name before, you're in luck, because Not Just Bikes just dedicated a full 95-minute video to how wrong he was about everything.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

The problem, of course, was that the research available at the time already supported UCLA's recommendations, but Forester wasn't going to let that stop him. Instead, he wrote the book Effective Cycling, where he simply told readers the research was on his side, while also misrepresenting studies and going on long-winded rants. And when researchers published newer studies that also showed Forester was wrong, he pretended they didn't exist.

Sounds reeeeeeeeally familiar.