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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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[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Not just that, but it also puts significantly less wear and tear on the road vs cars.

And that translates to lessened pollution from concrete dust. The roads wear down, and when they do, it gets into our lungs. Yet another benefit of switching to bikes.

And that's even before considering the decrease in dust/pollutants from repaving like you mentioned:

You could dedicate a few roads to bikes, or bikes and buses, and potentially repave way less often.

Every time we re-pave, we spew a shit load of concrete dust/pollutants into the air we breathe. The less we do that the better.

Plus less concrete means less CO^2^