Membership Drive to Forge Path for Better Streets

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Sydney, NSW A new Better Streets active transport advocacy and support group is on a membership drive as it prepares to target the NSW election in March. Better Streets is aiming to sign up at least 1,000 individuals and organisations in NSW – including actions groups, businesses, schools and health providers – to its active…

King-Sized Dose of Adventure for New Mercane Australia Owners

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Brisbane, Queensland Brothers Justin and Chris King are fully embracing the adventure of a new venture, recently purchasing Mercane Scooters Australia. Justin, a general manager of luxury hotels for nearly 20 years, and Chris, a former highly ranked army officer with a management background in everything from the Olympics and the fitness industry to Silicon…

Queensland Families Increasingly Turning to Electric Mopeds

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Brisbane, Queensland A steady stream of Queensland families is turning to electric scooters to save money amid rising fuel prices and other costs of living, but not just the type of scooters most commonly associated with micromobility. Australia’s first all-electric vehicle concept store, EV Motors Brisbane, is selling a growing number of electric moped scooters.…

Scooter Companies Welcome Government Strategy to Declutter Paths

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Brisbane, Queensland An e-Mobility Parking Plan has been launched by the Queensland Government to address the ‘clutter’ of e-scooters and other e-mobility devices on the State’s paths. The plan aims to improve the parking of e-scooters, e-bikes and other e-mobility devices “to ensure they are not left in a way which blocks paths and creates…

Tiller Sows Seeds for Greater E-Bike Integration and Innovation

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Fremantle, WA A WA e-bike manufacturer with ambitions to be Australia’s micromobility answer to Tesla has released its first batch of bikes on the eastern seaboard. The Fremantle start-up, Tiller Rides, has started delivering approximately 50 of its pre-ordered Roadster e-bike up and down the east coast, after previously supplying initial buyers in its home…

80th Birthday Cycle Across Australia a Gift for Active Transport

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Perth, WA One of the great benefits of modern e-bikes is their capacity to keep older people riding, helping them stay active and connected. But despite their rapidly advancing technology, their improved power assistance and the greater distances they can cover, few people would seriously consider riding an e-bike from one side of Australia to…

Lug+Carrie Shares Successful School of Thought at Micromobility Expo

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Melbourne, Victoria An e-bike subscription service’s pioneering efforts to eliminate barriers to cycling is clearing its own upward trajectory to success, with Lug+Carrie elevating its operations to much higher levels. The three-year-old Melbourne company’s success in introducing families to e-cargo bikes has already led to expansion into Sydney earlier this year and Brisbane in recent…

Letter From America: Infrastructure Over Subsidies for Cycling Boost

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Santa Fe, US Letter From America is a monthly feature in our other publication, The Latz Report. It focuses on the issues within the US bike industry this month covered a topic very close to the heart of micromobility, and likely to inspire debate, so we thought we would include this instalment in the Micromobility…

London Lessons Bring Clear Steps for Accelerated Transport Transition

Megan Sharkey

Sydney, NSW Transforming cities towards sustainable transport can be accelerated considerably if advocates employ a number of proven and easily replicated tools and actions, according to a city transitions expert behind an active transport success story in London. City transformation and transition specialist Megan Sharkey was on the board of the London Cycling Campaign and…

‘iPhone Moment’ Beckoning for Micromobility’s Ascendence

Sydney, NSW Micromobility is still yet to have its ‘iPhone moment’ as a major transportation force but it is fast approaching, according to long-standing industry commentator and visionary Oliver Bruce. The NZ native with a global presence in the industry said micromobility’s disruption to the automotive industry is already comparable to the impact early smartphones…