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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

“We were expecting a couple hundred applications — for the entire year,” said Mike Salisbury, who then oversaw the e-bike rebate program as a city staffer. “But in two weeks, we received ten times that number.”

Really??? For free money?

"Since then, Denver has distributed close to 15,000 vouchers, or roughly one for every 40 adult residents. The city has lowered the standard rebate to $300 for an e-bike or $500 for an e-cargo bike, but new batches of vouchers are still snapped up like Oasis reunion tickets. In August, some 17,000 people scrambled to snag one of 220 vouchers. They were gone in seconds."