What Will a Biden Presidency Mean for Micromobility?

By Phil Latz | 8th November 2020 |
Joe Biden - Will his actions match his policies?

I write these words on Sunday 8th November, (Australian time) moments after Joe Biden claimed victory in the 2020 USA presidential election. Once the initial euphoria of his supporters dies down and the real world landscape comes back into view, what effect will this new presidency have upon cycling and micromobility, not just in the…

Is It Fair We’ve Virtually Legislated the Necessity to Own a Car?

By Christian Haag | 15th October 2020 |

By Christian Haag* Decades of transport planning policy that has given the car unchallenged primacy of place has proved and continues to prove destructive to our social, economic, physical and environmental wellbeing. Decades of ever-expanding suburbia, with little or no thought put into affordable, sustainable transport solutions other than to drive, locks us all into…

Why Am I Launching the Micromobility Report?

By Phil Latz | 27th September 2020 |

By Phil Latz, Publisher There’s an old but enduring saying, ‘A picture says a thousand words.’ 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. As we grow up, we are taught to suppress…

Four Children Killed, ‘Riding Bikes’

By Phil Latz | 28th February 2020 |
Sunday Telegraph snap

On 2nd February 2020 I woke up early on a Sunday morning to the news that the previous evening, four young children, three girls and a boy, were killed on a suburban footpath in Sydney. Three more children were hospitalised. At appears that a 29 year old male drunk driver, behind the wheel of a…

Why Micromobility Deserves Government Support

By Phil Latz | 29th November 2019 |
Bike Stores in Moonee Valley and Yarra Local Government Areas

I’ve always been an analytical type of person. Show me the numbers! Then I’ll make decisions based upon the data There’s nothing exceptional in that. It’s what every good bike businessperson does day in and day out when they’re deciding what to order, what prices to charge and a host of other decisions. Theoretically our…

Letter from America – December 2019

By Marc Sani | 29th November 2019 |
Letter from America

What Should Our Industry be Doing about Climate Change? Nothing brings an issue into sharper focus than a study in contrasts. Let’s consider three individuals: American President Donald Trump, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. In early November Ms. Ardern gave a 10-minute speech in New Zealand’s Parliament—a rousing…