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Cities including Kent, WA mandate a 60/40 split if parking to building area, enforcing cars are the only practical transport option. This equation has shifted
by mehhh 7y ago
Cities including Kent, WA mandate a 60/40 split if parking to building area, enforcing cars are the only practical transport option.
This equation has shifted due to eBikes, as they can blow past the snarled traffic on the handful of roads that connect the area, but it still leaves elders, youngsters and the infirm housebound.
- novok 7y agoIf your already in a mobility scooter, I could see it being modified to work in ebike mode. In a way, it's even more convenient for you because you don't have to lock it up or park it anywhere.
- mehhh 7y agoMobility scooters make poor eBike platforms due to the direct electric drive, small radius tires. Hitting 10+mph in a mobility scooter is not likely to happen without serious modifications that are more costly than welding two eBikes together.
- novok 7y agoBut you can foresee a mobility scooter that was designed to go 1-20mph comfortably? They take up so much space and weigh so much you could probably make them street legal electric motorbikes.
- pjc50 7y agoMobility scooters are designed to operate in pedestrian spaces, including indoors. Ones capable of 20mph would probably get banned from pedestrian areas, indoor operation, malls etc for the same reason you wouldn't let someone ride an electric motorbike up the corridors.
- fanf2 7y agoThe world record is over 70mph but yes, seriously modified http://www.colinfurze.com/fastest-scooter.html http://www.colinfurze.com/fastest-scooter.html
- tjr225 7y agoUsed to work in Kent. Loved my job, hated that awful town.
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoEverything I know about Kent I learnt by watching Almost Live (eg https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6JOQbwVJjxY https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6JOQbwVJjxY). Seems to be a worse version of Renton.