micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility
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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Kind of buried the lede.
So this isn't just wildlife preservation folks missing the mark; they have what seem to be legitimate concerns about the project. I used to work on a study that looked at the cost of active vs passive wetland restoration, and I can assure you, active restoration isn't cheap (which is what the company is proposing). If they're so cash-poor, will they even be able to afford restoring a wetland? What happens if they start on the construction but go bankrupt? What if they experience flooding greater than planned?
Helping to grow alternative travel methods is good, but if I lived there, I would be worried, too.
Likely tax dodge accounting, or more hopefully actual investment in infrastructure.
Someone I know who's involved in economics also said it sounds kinda like some sort of scam project, like it got bought by some hedge fund with the goal of tanking it to get insurance money or something.
I dunno, I'm not smart enough to make any kinda claim like that myself or really understand it, but I do know that the numbers and actions seem incongruous or naively optimistic.