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35MPH Long Range Ebike?
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this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2023
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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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You don't need a bike, you need a great public transport system. Great means service every 5 minutes all day, every day. System means the entire city is covered with great transfers to express routes that move fast to close to where you want to be. It can be done, and would be cheaper than a car for everyone in your city in the long run, but it will also be expensive to get there. Good luck.
You're not wrong but public transit here sucks. Every weekend I go to a friend's house - by car it is 1 hour every time. By train it is somewhere between 2.5 and 3 hours depending on delays. Public transport (even when poorly implemented) offers a great way to get in/out of medium to large cities, but isn't really ideal for trips from one rural area outside the city to another. What would be much more convenient would be if I could bring an ebike on the train with me. Most of the distance on this trip is covered by a 1h train ride, and it's just the busses on either end which are slow and unreliable. Unfortunately they don't allow electric bikes at all, and normal bikes are only allowed during certain hours.