Seattle had 10 million bike and scooter share trips this year

This is such an under-appreciated win on so many levels: reduced carbon emissions, better air quality, less traffic congestion, better community health, less demand for cars in the city and the costs that come with them (housing is much more expensive to build when it includes parking!), and more people out and about in our neighborhoods.

I know there are issues to address with bad behavior on these things, but it’s clear that as a city we should be prioritizing how to make bike and scooter use more convenient and less risky for everyone (more parking corrals for them, better enforcement of sidewalk riding and parking rules), rather than trying to regress back to our more car-dependent past.

Source: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/becky-edmonds_might-be-spilling-the-beans-a-little-bit-activity-7404006039551148032-4AaP