The bike lanes in B.C. are getting crowded as more ‘micro-mobility vehicles’ hit the road

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Vancouver and Victoria are grappling with how to create space for micro-mobility vehicles: e-bikes, scooters, electric scooters, electric tricycles, electric unicycles, unicycles and more

Derrick Harder is a fan of people getting around without cars. He used to ride a regular bike to work in Victoria, but now rides an e-bike. He is often taken aback at the tussle for space in bike lanes as a new array of non-motorized wheeled vehicles proliferates.

“There’s a huge cultural change,” said Simon Fraser University sociology professor Travers, who uses only one name and prefers they as a pronoun. That has to change, say transportation watchers, as the popularity of new methods of propelling oneself faster than walking accelerated during the pandemic.

There are more coming, too, as manufacturers continue to experiment with ways of getting around that are less expensive and cumbersome than a car. Fiat is launching an electric quadricycle – essentially a micro car. Mr. Storer remembers that when he started at the city in 2005, there were easily defined categories: pedestrians on sidewalks, cars on roads, lanes here and there for the cycling that was just starting to achieve critical mass.

Source: Car News Wire (carnewswire.net)

 

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