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Climate One

New Wheels in Town

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4.7583 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Electric scooters, skateboards and bicycles are popping up all over in cities all over the country. Ride-hailing companies are also moving to two wheels. Uber bought the bike sharing company Jump, and Lyft followed suit by scooping up Motivate, which operates bike sharing services in San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, New York and other cities. Is an electric skateboard company next? As companies jockey to offer a suite of transportation options what is the future of urban mobility? Are these new urban toys really solving the notorious first-mile and last-mile problem? Guests: Stuart Cohen, Executive Director, TransForm Sanjay Dastoor, Co-Founder, Boosted Boards and CEO, Skip Scooters Megan Rose Dickey, Senior Reporter, TechCrunch This program was recorded live at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on June 20, 2018. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Over the last few years, getting around in some cities has gotten a lot more flexible and accessible.

0:26.6

It's electric skateboards, it's electric scooters, it's electric bicycles.

0:30.6

Green scooters, black scooters, orange scooters.

0:33.6

Cargo bicycles that have three wheels and kids being taken to school. There's docked and there's dockless.

0:40.3

30%, 35%, 40% of commutes happening by bicycle.

0:44.3

But does more traffic in the bike lane mean a fundamental change in urban mobility?

0:48.3

What is a game changer is just the profusion of choices that we increasingly have.

0:57.6

People don't have to think about where's my car keys.

1:00.7

They just have to think about choosing between affordability,

1:02.3

you know, how quick it is, how comfortable,

1:04.5

or with scooters or bike shares, how fun it is.

1:13.6

New wheels in town. Up next on Climate One. I'm Devon Strollovich. Electric scooters, skateboards, and bicycles are suddenly sprouting on sidewalks and in parking spaces around the country.

1:23.6

If you haven't seen them yet where you live, you might soon. In 2017, the number of shared bikes doubled to 100,000 nationwide,

1:30.3

and investors are pouring money into more than 30 startup companies

1:33.3

deploying bikes and scooters around commercial and residential neighborhoods.

1:37.3

Anything that makes transportation more affordable, more accessible, more equitable,

1:41.3

potentially is worth a lot.

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