Testing the best ways to get around a city: Bike, e-bike and e-scooter

by Tom BabinBikes, CitiesPosted on Comments are Disabled

It’s an urban challenge we’ll all run into at some point: You need to get across the city quickly. What’s the best way? To answer that, I decided to test three transportation options. My own bike. A dockless shared e-bike from Lime. A dockless shared e-scooter from Lime. This isn’t only about speed. I’m also …

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What’s all the fuss? In the right city, dockless bike sharing is a simple, genteel experience

by Tom BabinCitiesPosted on 5 Comments

In Seattle, it was heralded as an urban paradigm shift. In China, it was cited as evidence of a declining national character. In Victoria, the capital of British Columbia, it felt positively genteel. I’m speaking of dockless bike-share systems, and after reading about them being implemented in cities all over the world, I finally got …

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