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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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[–] Enkrod@feddit.org 14 points 2 days ago

Investing in helping diversify anything infrastructure related in a city of that size is always going to have a positive return on investment. The best example was snow shoveling, when people can go to work, they can participate in the economy and pay taxes. With this, people will more readily ride bikes for routes that are slightly too long to walk, reducing car traffic, speeding it up at the same time while reducing wear and tear on the street surface and ecological impact which comes with it's own price tag.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

How do metal boxes cost $50k each?

[–] inconceivable@feddit.org 9 points 2 days ago

I think it's the motors and airbags.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

Because there's 50 people involved and everyone wants to do maximum effort to cover their own ass.

Somewhat related Design Theory video:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4haFPDNSuPY

[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

a mix of smaller secure lockers in residential areas and larger high-capacity facilities in commercial areas and near transit hubs

[–] Bgugi@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah, it's a combination of racks, lockers and sheds!

[–] JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

It's good to see this decade long slog coming to fruition, but it is still a dog house for a bike, not exactly inspiring infrastructure. Painting them anything but slate grey would probably help with visual appeal, so here's hoping for that.

Thinking of the top of the mountain, the Netherlands builds underground bike storage roughly the same as these bike sheds, on a per bike basis. Of course that type of permanent infrastructure is time consuming to construct, but this sudo permanent shed rollout is spread across the next five years, so not exactly quick.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

How much to live in one?