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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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[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

I'm happy to read about areas that are actually accessible. I don't use a wheelchair or walker, but I'm very aware of the need to have accessible infrastructure. I can say without a shadow of a doubt that my municipality, and the several nearby, do NOT have accessible trails for people to enjoy the outdoors.

We're talking complete design failure, from tall curbs at entrances/exits of trails, to dangerous slopes on the trails themselves.

Then you have sections that are intentionally narrowed to prevent cars and motorcycles from entering, but they are designed in a way where someone in a wheelchair couldn't possibly fit through them, or manoeuvre through them without getting tangled.

These same deficiencies are experienced by able-bodied people who might be using a trike or child trailer with their bike, so it affects a large number of users along these trail systems.

Even worse are trails where there appear to be SPEED BUMPS, intentionally set, but for whom?? To slow down a speeding person in a wheelchair? To trip up someone using a walker? To slow down cyclists instead of cars?

Jesus Christ, design infrastructure for humans, not machines.