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With a throttle and no pedals, Super73’s new “electric balance bike” blurs the lines of regulation and safety. “No license, registration or insurance required,” its marketing promises.
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Active modes (walking, bicycling and their variants) and micromodes (e-bikes and e-scooters) can provide large climate emission reductions and other important benefits, if we let them. Small modes are important but often undercounted and undervalued.
What role can active and micro modes (walking, bicycling, e-bikes and their variants) play in reducing emissions? Far more than most current emission reduction plans will achieve. We can do better!
'People are rationing, it's ridiculous,' says Louise, a co-founder of a community project in Shiremoor, North Tyneside. The Guardian's Maeve Shearlaw and Christopher Cherry went to meet the women who have begun work on transforming a crumbling building into a women-focused support centre in the area that has the highest rate of child poverty in the UK.