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LA has a bad, terrible, abhorrent mobility track record. It was just crowned the worst city to bike in the entire country (not a surprise to anyone living here, with most of our streets the size of most other city highways).
Its sprawl is notorious, overshadowed only by its traffic.
And it seems LA has gone out of its way to maintain the status quote, going so far as completely ignore IT’S OWN bike plan and carrying on its deadly, polluting, and carbon emitting car-centric ways.
Scooter companies are being sued for scooter injuries.
Yet, as we wrote a while ago, scooters aren’t the issue. They’re merely symptoms, exposing the real culprit: decades of dangerous, inflexible, car-centric street design.
After the unveiling of the Model 3, then after the IPCC climate report, there have been a rash of articles asking if electric cars can essentially save the world. The consensus seems to be that if powered mostly by renewable energy, then they might save us from cooking the planet.
We severely disagree.
Electric micromobility’s massive global impact: Unlike newer, car dependent cites, much of the emerging world gets around on scooters and motorcycles. Their electrification will have massive impact on pollution and carbon emissions.
Designed to fly: From its corrosion resistant/eye-catching paint to an electric motor/batteries, how JUMP’s bike design put it on the map.
We had an incredible weekend at ReCharge/Culver City Art Walk and Roll!
Thank you to the Culver City Arts District BID for organizing and inviting us!!! 🎉🎶🖼🥙🌯🍺🚲🛴⚡️
Thank you to our sponsors Micro Kickboard and LA CoMotion 💚💚💚
Advocates of scooters (such as Have A Go) tout the many, many benefits of micromobility. One of these benefits is their tiny carbon footprint.
As scooters proliferate, some are beginning to question just how carbon free they are when fleet management is taken into consideration.
“Better the devil you know.”
It feel like more than ever, we seem to prefer the hell of today rather than entertain even slightest bit of change.
In Los Angeles, where our streets are near infernos, references to hell are unfortunately more than mere exaggeration…
It may seem like a lifetime ago, but Bird made its debut only a year ago on the streets of Santa Monica.
By the summer of 2018 scooters were already the year’s, if not the decade’s, biggest blockbuster. Scooter adoption levels rivaled potentially any other technology in human history and resulting in much analysis in the disruptive potential of these vehicles.
But Bird didn’t manage this alone. Disruption usually doesn’t just happened by just one company.
