Micromobility
What If Drivers Had to Follow Scooter Laws?
It seems like there's a story every other day about an exciting new traffic law aimed at curbing the most dangerous behaviors on U.S. roads. The only problem? They're almost exclusively aimed at the riders of electric push scooters — not automobile drivers, who are responsible for almost all deaths on our roadways.
August 31, 2021
Who Should Keep the Scooter Revolution Running?
One of the nation's largest e-scooter operators is in hot water for violating labor regulations in San Francisco — and it's sparking a dialogue about what the micromobility gig economy means for the mobility futures of cities far beyond the Bay.
July 7, 2021
STUDY: City Visitors Who Use E-scooters More Spend More
While e-scooters may offer a low-carbon option for post-COVID tourism, do these schemes benefit tourist cities? One Australian study explores.
June 29, 2021
SET YOUR CALENDARS: How to Radically Shift the Way the U.S. Does Infrastructure
America is on the brink of making one of the biggest investments in transportation infrastructure in a generation — and a new event will explore why we need an even bigger cultural shift towards mobility justice if we want to do it right.
June 8, 2021
Lime Makes Big Bet on Electric Bikeshare
One of America's largest scooter-share companies is going back to its roots as a bike company — and taking a step into the future by going electric. Could 2021 be the year of the e-bike?
March 1, 2021
Why the New Mobility Revolution Leaves Seniors Behind
Elders are being left out of the new mobility revolution — and will be more so by the time autonomous vehicles come around, a new study argues.
March 1, 2021
Bill Would Finally Give Bikeshare Transit Dollars
Bike- and scooter-share systems across the country may soon be eligible for the federal transit dollars they need to remain a stable and thriving element of our transportation landscape, if advocates can finally succeed in getting a hard-fought bill through Congress.
February 2, 2021
Report: Bike Infrastructure Key to E-scooter Usage in Portland
They’re not just bike lanes anymore.
September 18, 2020
Micromobility Trips Explode 60 Percent In One Year — But Bikeshares Lag
Scooters are driving the recent micromobility revolution — but don't count out the humble bike just yet.
August 31, 2020
Cal. Fixes Bill that Would’ve Ended Micromobility
AB 1268 would have made e-scooter-share and e-bike-share companies functionally uninsurable — until advocates successfully pressured California to amend the controversial bill.
August 26, 2020
