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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] 37 points 4 months ago

I ran into something like this in my younger days. I just dragged it over into the car lane.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago

Surely it should be in the lane to the right. It's for the cars after all

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

Being on a bike makes you closer to fulfilling your impulses. You can get off your bike, and toss that road sign off the street into the grass where it belongs.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I see a car parked in the bike lane up ahead too.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

I mean, it might be driving in the bike lane.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

I would 100% drag that out into the road to block the car lane.

[–] beppi 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This is the most Perth, Western Australia, photo iv'e ever seen. Someone validate me please

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Looking at the number plate, I would say this is somewhere in NSW.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

As a clueless European, I always first read this acronym as “north south west”.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

There's a trailer plate on the sign as well that looks NSW to me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I think this pretty well describes most places in Australia, sadly. Things are, decent, in Melbourne, but I'd still never recommend it as a mode of travel unless someone lives near the bike infrastructure. Australia is still car centric, sadly.

I do still love using the infrastructure that does exist, regardless.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Yep, this seems about right.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

It's like a joke by this point.

I ride on a stretch of road that has a bike lane that transitions (squeezes cyclists) onto a narrow road with no shoulder and poor quality surface. Even the sidewalk ends at this transition, forcing pedestrians onto the road.

This transition happens on an incline, so anyone on foot or bike will be going slower. Naturally, this seems to piss off drivers as if you've insulted their mother.

I always laugh, swear, and shake my head at the "share the road" sign at this section, as if it's been put there as a big FU to anyone not in a motor vehicle.

The municipalities that do this sort of thing really have no idea what cycling or walking alongside aggressive SUV drivers, who refuse to share the road, is like.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Even with that massive sign in the way there's still way more room for bikes in this pic than there is anywhere near me. Most places are under 10cm, many are 0-3cm. High speed limits too. Yeah nobody even tries biking here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Wdym, under 10cm? That can't be right, can it?

If you mean a line that close to the sidewalk, that's usually an indicator whether parking is allowed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

No, just one lane each direction, people driving 80+km, a line on the side, then 2cm over it's a ditch. Lots of heavy construction and landscaping trucks on the road too. We don't have sidewalks. You can't ride bikes here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I ride almost everywhere, but that does sound quite risky. Plenty of spots like that in the US as well when you're in the countryside, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The US countryside isn't nearly as dangerous as the outskirts of US cities. That's where I drive. I wish I could bike it. Too many memorial bicycles on the sides of the road.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

It's tough everywhere I guess. Countryside is quiet, but there's no shoulder in some curvy spots, and some drivers didn't want to wait to pass.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

A sign to kill cyclists.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

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