Micromobility Revolution Roundup December 10
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Uber’s scooter rumor-mill: While there is no definitive news, the rumors about Uber’s ambitions for a Bird or Lime acquisition continue swirling.
Mother of all scooters: The story of Ninebot, the birthplace of most of today’s electric scooters, and how it never saw the scooter explosion coming.
Yellow Latin Micromobility: Growing out of its first home in São Paulo, Yellow is getting ready to expand dockless bike sharing to Colombia, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Uruguay, and beyond.
Two wheeled urban saviors: As we near the close of 2018, numerous media outlets reflect on the massive benefits of scooters and bikes for urban mobility, health, and wealth: Wired, Vox, CNBC.
It’s the hardware, stupid: With current scooter lifecycles as low as one month, Superpedestrian, maker of the Copenhagen Wheel, is focusing on scooter hardware with a longer lasting design, self diagnosing capabilities, and longer range.
Scooter City: While scooters and Santa Monica didn’t always mix, the city has shown flexibility and foresight in experimenting with new mobility, becoming ground zero for scooters.
Comedy/tragedy: One city’s state of biking infrastructure is so bad it’s become Onion fodder.
MORE MICROMOBILITY
Business Insider: Uber did little to downplay reports it wants to buy scooter firms Bird or Lime in a deal potentially worth billions
Wired: UPS Tries Delivery Tricycles As Seattle’s Traffic Doom Looms
NWS: Ostend mayor ditches official car for electric bike
CBS Philly: Philly Considering Rolling Out Electric Bike Program
Curbed: How electric bikes can make cities safer
Curbed Chicago: Use Divvy bikes through Lyft app soon
Dezeen: Zoov’s electric share bicycles lock together like shopping trolleys
MNN: Aging boomers: Forget the car, get on a bike
Greater Greater Washington: If DC is serious about being a green city, it should encourage dockless scooters
StreetsBlog LA:Eyes on the Street: Culver City’s Bike Corrals
San Francisco Chronicle: Scooter mechanic, once homeless, says cheap rides now help him pay rent
CITIES/URBAN DESIGN
Forbes: Running To Work Quicker Than Driving Shows Strava Data From British Cities
The Guardian: Luxembourg to become first country to make all public transport free
The Guardian: ‘For me, this is paradise’: life in the Spanish city that banned cars
The Washington Post: Study: Gas taxes are six times as effective as stricter fuel-economy standards
CityLab: A Cartoonist’s Vision of a Car-Free Future
Forbes: Meet The Married Couple Transforming Cities With Big Data And Bicycle Lights
CityLab: Bikeshare, Scooters, Cars, Trains, Bridges: One Agency to Rule Them All
SmartCitiesDive: California senator reintroduces contentious transit density bill
Forbes: How Slow Lanes Can Speed Up New Mobility (And Save Lives)
StreetsBlog Cal: Transportation Commission, Air Resources Meet at Cross Purposes, Talk Past Each Other
CLIMATE CHANGE
GQ: How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal” Might Help Save the Planet
The Guardian: The ‘great dying’: rapid warming caused largest extinction event ever, report says
The Guardian: ‘We are last generation that can stop climate change’ – UN summit
NY Times: The Planet Has Seen Sudden Warming Before. It Wiped Out Almost Everything
NY Times: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accelerate Like a ‘Speeding Freight Train’ in 2018
Sierra Club: Sue the Bastards – Climate change lawsuits are going global
BBC: COP24 fails to adopt key scientific report
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