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micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility

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Ebikes, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, longboards, eboards, motorcycles, skates, unicycles: 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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(BRAIN) โ€” Tern is asking retailers to be on the lookout for 48 of its bikes and e-bikes that were stolen while in transport by rail from Los Angelas to a Tern warehouse in Illinois last month.The company is working with law enforcement and insurers following the theft of a container of bikes worth a total of about $170,000.

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[โ€“] litchralee@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

This harkens to a Half As Interesting video (YT or Nebula) about trains being robbed at a very particular point in Southern California, between the port and the regional rail yard.