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in Marseille, trams have to frequently compete with pedestrians and bicycles that keep walking/riding on the tram line

Ugh, that is definitely annoying and dangerous. I used to live in Erfurt, Germany for a while. Quaint medieval old-town, huge cathedral, very popular with tourists, some major attraction happening roughly every weekend.

So they have that really narrow alley running from the cathedral to the central square where all the tourists and citizens are squeezing through, and yeah, lo and behold, they run a tram through it as well… 🤪

I gotta assume the majority of Germany’s ~30 tram deaths per year are drunken tourists in Erfurt.

There's a direct comparison here: Birmingham is a small city

If you want to have a large city comparison, look at Berlin.

Berlin was divided after WW2 until 1989. West-Berlin, like most of West-Germany, removed all of their trams and replaced them for individual car use and buses. East-Berlin largely kept their trams.

The difference between trams and buses are huge. The „schedule“ of the major West-Berlin bus routes have become a running joke among Berliners: „You’ll wait and wait and suddenly there’s a herd of them!“. It’s bad. Really bad.

Trams are the reason I live in East-Berlin and would never, ever move to West-Berlin.

Yeah, this is really no joke.

Cube is a German company, and one of the largest bike manufacturers. Their bikes are ubiquitous here.

And German vehicle regulations are extremely strict. It‘s only an e-bike if it’s limited to 25 km/h, anything above is a „light motor bike“, which indeed needs a registration and a license.

Driving a vehicle without those is a misdemeanour* in Germany.

And I assume Cube did everything to reach out to all owners directly, so Police will assume you know those bikes are illegal.

Edit: * Technically. I mean, most likely they’ll just find you and impound the bike. But if they want to fuck you up about this, they totally can.

The argument was not whether fixed cost exceed the variable cost or vice versa.

The argument was that a lot of people severely underestimate the actual cost of any given trip because they only account for (a subset of) the variable costs (i.e. gas).

And it’s true. Rarely anyone does full costing when it comes to cars because „the fixed cost are there no matter how much you drive“.

It’s definitely going to be very popular with some ~~crews~~ groups…

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q_Sxq5LPtPM

The results seem to show that despite Paris banning shared electric scooters, Parisians still seek out and use shared mobility devices. Now, they appear to have merely shifted to shared bikes instead of shared scooters.

Friendly reminder that correlation is not causation.

From what I remember from reading studies about usage patterns of shared scooter they seemed to be replacing mostly short walks and public transport trips, and rarely car usage (only short taxi trips IIRC). Also usage patterns are mostly for leisure and fun, and rarely commuting.

And I don’t see why someone who’s too lazy to walk or sit on a tram would use a bike now. I mean, sure, some people, but definitely not all of them.

Also, there were 15k scooters, and the number of bike rides per month exploded by at least 1 million, which would mean that every single scooter was used at least two times every day. That doesn’t feel plausible.

On the other hand, Paris is investing heavily in bike infra, so my guess would be some major player/s just dropped massive amounts of shared bikes and people who did not use them before are now using them. Could be anyone, though. Maybe 15 k people stopped using a car and are now commuting by bike twice a day… 🤷‍♀️

Das zu beurteilen ist nicht Aufgabe des EuGH: „Das Kammergericht wird den Fall nun unter Berücksichtigung des Urteils zu entscheiden haben“.

Yes, because people in the US cannot be trusted to drive at safe speeds while the EU regulates 80/100 km/h with a trailer.

Ahahaha, tell me you’ve never left your country, probably not even your fucking state.

Yeah, all of Europe doesn’t know how to tow, and is „sketchy as fuck“. 🤡

This is perfectly legal and safe.

You know what’s sketchy as fuck? The US, which has 3 times more road deaths per capita than the EU.

Now go back to your wankpanzer, please.

You mean like so?

Also, that's funny that USAA won't cover bikes that assist above 15mph, since literally every class of eBike goes faster than that

That is, however, the legal limit for e-bikes in the EU (25 km/h), everything else you need license and registration for.

There's a world of difference between a legit branded eBike

Seriously, what is going on with the US (from another article that’s linked in this one):

“I had my e bike (although it’s one of those that look like scooters with the big batteries) in the elevator and the super just happened to come in. He stared at it and said you can’t charge these in the building. You’ll be getting a letter soon. I got it and it said e-bikes were not allowed in the building anymore because of all the fires that have come up because of them. It’s really sad too because I just ordered myself an e-bike from alibaba that I’d been waiting weeks for.“

Who the fuck buys an e-bike on ali-fucking-baba?