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"The term “micromobility” only makes sense if we accept motor vehicles as the default. Yet so often, these vehicles are oversized for the purposes for which they’re used." -Sarah Risser in a really interesting piece that reminds me yet again how often implicit autocentrism *drives* language choices. (I know you see what I did there.) https://usa.streetsblog.org/2023/06/12/opinion-why-we-should-stop-using-the-term-micromobility #WordsMatter #transportation #micromobility

Opinion: Why We Should Stop Using the Word 'Micromobility' — Streetsblog USA

"SUVs, pick-up trucks, and passenger cars should not be the benchmark by which we judge the size of other forms of transit, and the term ‘micromobility’ encourages us to believe that they are."
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#transportation #wordsmatter #micromobility
in reply to BarbChamberlain

Paolo Redaelli
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I've seen it used in contraposition to train and tram. I thought it referred to the span of the movement (1-5km range) instead of the size of the vehicle
in reply to BarbChamberlain

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@asymco Working back from bikes and scooters being micromobility… Looking at a weight regime of around 30 lbs for a bicycle, so if that is micro, the SI unit of mobility weighs 30*10^6 lbs… So roughly a Bagger 288 strip mining excavator (pictured), which comes in at just shy of 30,000,000 lbs.

There you go, the picture of mobility implied by “micromobility”
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