Boca Raton Micro-Mobility Survey Needs YOU!

Introduction

When was the last time you were on Boca Raton’s roadways and didn’t see an e-Bike or e-Scooter? They’re all over the place and are forecast to continue rapid growth¹. The city is developing plans to improve micro-mobility safety and requests your input.

Background

While micro-mobility encompasses several different types of devices, e.g., analog bikes, e-Bikes, single wheels, etc., this article focuses on e-Bikes since they dominate the micro-mobility market.

The New York Times recently published two excellent articles detailing the current situation regarding e-Bikes.^2,3

Some amazing facts from the articles are as follows:        

Bloomberg New Energy Finance calculates that e-Bikes are already cutting worldwide demand for oil by a million barrels per day, or four times as much as all the world’s electric cars.³

On a pedal bike, the chance of dying from an injury is about three-tenths of 1 percent but on an e-Bike, the data indicated, it was 11 percent.³

There are significant advantages and risks to e-Bikes and the city is trying to determine the best plan for making the environment safer while not having a negative impact on growth. BocaFirst has been reporting on the e-Bike situation in Boca Raton and concurs that the city needs to make significant changes for safety. e-Bike Crash at Boca Middle – BocaFirst

Survey Request

To help inform Boca Raton’s approach to making the roadways safer for micro-mobility devices your input is requested. Please complete the survey in the following link and at the end hit “send” to send it to the city.

BOCA on the Move: A Micro-Mobility Safety Symposium

Protected Intersection Demo

ICYMI, at the symposium, the City of Boca Raton launched its demonstration project of a Protected Intersection. See our article “Protected Intersection Prototype Comes to Boca.“, try out the intersection and take our survey about it here:

Summary

This article provides some current information regarding micro-mobility by focusing on e-bikes. Boca Raton is requesting your survey input to help develop the plan for improving micro-mobility safety in the city.

References

1. U.S. E-bike Market Size to Hit Around USD 11.39 BN By 2034
2. The Dangers of E-bikes – The New York Times
3. The Shocking Crash That Led Marin County to Reckon With the Dangers of E-Bikes – The New York Times