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Welcome to Our First Micromobility Report Newsletter!
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Thanks for opening this newsletter! We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we’ve enjoyed creating it. We’d love your feedback, so please use the comments facility at the bottom of each article or email or phone us.
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Our goal is for the Micromobility Report to be open minded, inclusive, accurate, relevant and interesting. We’d love to talk with anyone who’d like to provide content or suggest a topic that we should cover.
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My heartfelt thanks to our team Linda Brown and Mel Doyle for all of their hard work to bring us to this point, plus many others who have helped us, too numerous to name here, but you know who you are… thanks! This is hopefully just the beginning of a long road that we’ll travel together… or shared path!
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We plan to email a newsletter on the second Friday of each month, so look out for our second newsletter on Friday12th March.
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Until then, all the best,
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Phil Latz
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There’s an old but enduring saying, ‘A picture says a thousand words.’
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Why am I launching the Micromobility Report? Just one look at the photo of my then three-year-old granddaughter riding her balance bike in the park says it all.
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As we grow up, we are taught to suppress or even hide our emotions, but there is no disguising the unbridled joy of a child riding their bike.
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It deeply saddens me to know how much her opportunities to continue doing what she loves will be so greatly limited ... Read more
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For micromobility to flourish, people need to feel safe on our roads. Over the past couple of years, I have been alarmed and dismayed to see a rapid acceleration in the number of ‘hyper-macho pickup trucks’ being imported from the USA and appearing on our streets. In the USA thousands more cyclists and pedestrians are being … Read More
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The developers claim that this new technology could lead to a 10x increase in the number of rides per scooter per day due to two key improvements. San Francisco / California / USA Take a look at this self driving scooter, launched on Thursday 28th January at the Micromobility World Conference by three collaborating companies, Spin, Segway and Tortoise. Read More
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Despite the boom in ebike sales over recent years, there are still far more non-ebikes on the road than ebikes. E-bike conversion kits have been around for many years. But they are relatively expensive and labour intensive to install. There have been some … Read More
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Click image to view video of test ride
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EMoS is a Brisbane based brand that’s pioneering the approval process and importation of a range of Light Electric Vehicles. Just before Christmas 2020, I was able to thread the needle between covid border restrictions and meet with Founder and Chief Technical Officer Wolfgang Roffman, along with Tony Blackshaw, ... Read More
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Infrastructure - Bike & Scooter Share
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The European Startup Prize for mobility (EUSP) is an EU-founded Acceleration and Investment Programme for sustainable mobility start-ups. This initiative aims to support and scale up smart and sustainable mobility start-ups … Read More
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Last year Lime rolled out their re-branded Jump dockless ebike system in Sydney. During a recent stay in the city centre of Sydney, I decided to set up an account and hire one of their bikes, to document the experience from a first time user’s perspective. I deliberately did not go online to read any instructions in advance. wanted to see what the experience would be like if I was a casual tourist or local visitor, just hiring on impulse. Read More
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Other Bike & Scooter Share News
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Infrastructure - Policy & Funding
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Australia’s National Transport Commission (NTC) has released its recommendations for common micromobility legislation across all Australian States and territories. The recommendations could see electric scooters … Read More
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Over recent years Paris has already been making the news for all the right reasons when it comes to micromobility. As we’ve reported here and here, the progressive Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo was re-elected last year for a second … Read More
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Other Policy & Funding News
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Infrastructure - All Other
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Changer Cargo Bike (CCCB) is a collaboration of 20 partners including cities, research institutions, NGOs, and industries from all over Europe in the quest to achieve a faster, more cost-effective and larger-scale deployment of cargo bike based logistics. On 22nd January 2021 CCCB published a comprehensive 28-page guide to different design options for cargo bike logistical …
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The City of Oslo has seen a 77% increase in bicycle traffic since passing a dedicated bicycle strategy in 2015. They were previously building just 1.5 kilometres of separated cycling infrastructure per year which was increased 10 fold to over 15 kilometres per year. This is about to double again as they’ve … Read More
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It was bound to happen sooner or later. On 17th November 2020, 28 USA corporations founded ZETA, the Zero Emission Transportation Association. Their initial 28 members include electric vehicle manufacturers … Read More
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Other Infrastructure News:
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New South Wales state government funding has allowed preliminary work and a tender process for the Northern Rivers Rail Trail to begin. Vegetation clearing along the Murwillumbah to Crabbes Creek rail corridor started earlier this month to give construction companies access to the trail site to prepare design and costings for the proposed rail trail. In late … Read More
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On Saturday 12th December the Bare Creek Bike Park was officially opened. Located in the heart of Sydney’s northern suburbs, the park offers a wide range of opportunities: A kids track suitable for kids right down to the youngest on kick along bikes.… Read More
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As we all continue to adapt to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Australian Walking and Cycling Conference Inc. is pleased to announce ... Read More
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By Justin McCulloch - Over the past five years, Australia has had a strained relationship with micromobility. We’ve seen everything from the ongoing COVID-19 bicycle boom, to the rise, fall, and return of e-scooters in many cities around the country, to street trees and rivers being used as parking for cheap dock-less bicycles. Whether it’s because of the persistence of shared … Read More
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