The Cars May Not Need the Parking, But All Those Other Vehicles Do
“Micromobility” is catching on with American urbanites. A report released by the North American Bike Share Association (NABSA) last month found that shared bikes and scooters provided 157 million trips on 194,000 vehicles in 2019, figures that should rise significantly when NABSA gets around to assessing the state of the industry in 2020 sometime next summer. Add to that the as-yet-unmeasured number of trips taken on privately owned micromobility vehicles and the impact on cities becomes becomes even greater. Bikes, e-bikes, scooters and e-scooters offer a low-carbon, high-efficiency, he...
Source: nextcity.org