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micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility

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Ebikes, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, longboards, eboards, motorcycles, skates, unicycles, heelies, or an office chair: Whatever floats your goat, this is all things micromobility!

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I see these every time a bicycle path intersects with any kind of car or train infrastructure. It just seems really patronizing, as if we're not capable of slowing down without getting off the bike; it also shifts responsibility onto the cyclists if there is a crash based on something arbitrary (mounted vs dismounted).

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[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I've only seen these in my area when you are entering very busy pedestrian areas. It is basically saying that you should expect to be moving slow enough that balancing on your bike will be more hassle than it is worth, so you should just dismount. And if you try to go through at full speed, you're being a dick

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

I have this sign in the tunnel under the train tracks, there's no way you're crossing that on your bike there's people walking in all direction all the time

[–] Nooodel@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Concur, same here. What gets me going is a sign saying cyclists are allowed to use the road. Think about it since years to put up an add on that says "cars too, but only on this road". There's such a thing as legislature and that already defines that we may bike on any road or except a motorway. So why the hell would someone patronize a normal road like that ffs

Even then, that usually is time-of-day dependent. Plenty of times when such places are mostly empty. Meanwhile, nearby areas also have brief peaks that people should dismount during those times.