Commercial companies that rent out mobility have now been given the exclusive right to more and more pieces of public space.
The fact that novelty and change evoke resistance in society is of all times. In the meantime, there are plenty of reasons for many people to gradually dislike shared bicycles, loan scooters or shared scooters. For example, because they scare the hell out of you on the bike path when they are in use. And when they stand still, they often lie overturned on the ground or against the facade of a house. In the worst case block the sidewalk so that no pedestrian with a rollator can pass.
sharing mobility
The question is whether all this partial mobility contributes to the real meaning of the word. If you and your neighbor share a scooter, it is a shared scooter. If you buy a car together, is that a shared car? But companies like Felix, Go and Check are commercial companies, they don't share anything! They contribute to a lesser extent to partial mobility, on the contrary. You can see young people who do not get a scooter from home whir proudly on the Felix scooter on a hot summer day. They would have cycled or walked that same route differently, and perhaps not even completed it.
The municipality also makes a very socially sensitive contribution to the rise of shared mobility, which everyone hates. Commercial companies that rent out mobility have now even been given the exclusive right to more and more pieces of public space. Just as taxi companies park their school buses in the evenings in public parking spaces in residential areas, preferably in front of the neighbours, the rental companies now also do the same with their scooters, bicycles and scooters on the sidewalk in the cities.
hypocrisy of shared mobility
Where transport poverty is a real problem, shared mobility is often not even available. And that sounds strange because that's where you'd expect it to be. American research has shown that partial scooters on average not even a month go along. This means that new scooters have to be continuously made and transported.
So don't come up with the argument that the scooters are sustainable. Moreover, it appears that the use of shared mobility is mainly at the expense of public transport and walking, and therefore not of car use. The idea is that if mobility is shared with each other, they are used better, fewer are needed and more space is created on the street. So the question is whether it will really make the city cleaner.
working together on quality of life
"For example, whoever drives in Central Station - people also ride there with their shared scooter - will go to 0 km per hour, and then your scooter will not be of much use to you."
no go zones are areas in which the use of the scooter is not desirable, including in nature reserves and cemeteries, in the station and at the entrances of shopping centers. The partial scooters automatically reduce speed and stop when users enter these zones. The technology makes it possible to automatically control the steps via geofencing.
no park zones are applicable in busy areas or areas with limited public space, such as nature reserves, cemeteries, sports fields and playgrounds. People will no longer be able to park or leave their scooter anywhere. If you leave your scooter there, you will not be able to log out and your rental time will continue, so that you continue to pay.
slow speed zones will occur in busy areas or pedestrian zones, such as the shopping streets and in and around the markets. Between 11 a.m. and 19 p.m., the scooter automatically slows down to a maximum of 8 kilometers per hour. This should ensure that there are no conflicts with pedestrians.
