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micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility
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"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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Honestly i think the big problem isn't regulation, it's the lack of good bike infrastructure.
People only ride on sidewalks because they feel unsafe on the road and don't have any other option, so if you make sure there are bike paths (even if they're shared with pedestrians, just make them wide enough) that take people where they want to go, then they'll generally stop being a nuistance for pedestrians.
And people get these pseudo-mopeds because they want the benefits of the e-bike format (lighter, less regulated, can go on bike paths) but feel a need to go fast, which isn't helped by forcing them to share space with drivers of gargantuan vehicles that consider 30km/h to be frustratingly slow..
Another big problem is people having to travel ludicrous distances all the time, which surely contributes to this problem being so common in big cities (and the entirety of the US).
My town has a really decent bike network and yeah, i don't really ever see people going upsettingly fast other than e-scooter riders (and even then it's not that common). People who want to go fast just get actual mopeds or motorbikes, and people who want the form factor of an e-bike don't feel the need to go faster than 25km/h, which generally works fine since there's enough space on the shared paths.
Then look at london, where Evan lives.. Infamous for generally having bike infrastructure summed up as "slightly better than nothing" to the point where some basic fucking bike paths got branded as "bicycle superhighways"..