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BBC News CCTV released after man steals 'luxurious' mobility scooter Close A burglar has been caught on CCTV smashing his way into a shop before fleeing on a mobility scooter. It happened at Modern Mobility in Fosse Park, Leicester, on Saturday evening, the shop manager said. The vehicle, which was worth more than £10,000, was described by the manager as "the most luxurious mobility scooter on the market in the UK". "Somebody has now been left without a mobility vehicle because of this cowardly act," store manager Nick Partridge said. "The Cabin Car is the most expensive item in the shop, so...

Modern Mobility is a biweekly opinion column. The views expressed are solely the author’s. The public meetings around the Shirlington Road Bridge project have reignited a long-standing community conversation about crossing safety near Four Mile Run Drive and Shirlington Road that has gone on for at least 10 years. The area, at the confluence of the W&OD Trail, several legs of the Four Mile Run Trail, also suffers from a bridge over Four Mile Run that only has a sidewalk on one side, with that sidewalk being extremely narrow, traffic coming off of a major interstate highway, and a very auto-...

An Estonian consortium tests an autonomous bus in Greece By 1839shares An Estonian consortium has completed an autonomous public transport pilot project in Greece; in two months, the Estonian autonomous bus, “Iseauto”, drove 1,930 kilometres (1,200 miles) on the streets of Lamia, carrying over 400 people. The autonomous minibus, developed by Tallinn University of Technology – also known as TalTech – and AuveTech in Estonia is the first forth category autonomous vehicle that has officially been declared “street-legal” in Greece. Testing the safety of pedestrians The bus was tes...

Estonia and Norway hold a virtual business forum 11. December 2020 - 17:44 Today, a high-level virtual visit was held between Estonia and Norway, with a business delegation also participating. Both Estonia and Norway were represented by foreign ministers, as well as Estonia’s Ambassador at Large for Climate and Energy Kaja Tael and Magnar Ødelien, the Programme Director of EEA Norway Grants at Innovation Norway. The visit included 36 bilateral meetings between companies and between countries and companies. Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu said the central topics of the virtual visit – sma...

Modern Mobility is a biweekly opinion column. The views expressed are solely the author’s. The Arlington County Board is set to vote this weekend on accepting a grant to implement a performance parking pilot in Arlington’s Metrorail corridors. Performance Parking is a proven approaching to managing parking supply to make parking more convenient. It uses technology to measure parking demand, and over time matches the price of that parking to demand, ensuring that parking is generally available where people want it, when people want it. How Does it Work? When trying to understand how perfor...