E-scooters

Injury rates for e-bike and scooter users are plummeting in Europe even as the use of those devices has exploded since 2021.

Micromobility riders need a good place to end their ride just like everyone else — and cities can accomplish several goals at once by giving them one.

By all accounts, micromobility is taking off. So why are so many systems shutting down?

Shared bikes and scooters are meeting low-income people's basic mobility needs — but they're not being subsidized like it.

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An increasing number of U.S. cities that once banned shared bikes and scooters are welcoming the modes back to their streets — and prompting a conversation about why they were ever restricted in the first place.

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For the global city that has put the world on notice over the past decade for embracing sustainable transport, Paris recently took a disappointing step backward by enacting a ban on shared scooters, known locally as trottinettes.