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Liam Duffy
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If the transport secretary is saying privately owned e-scooters will become a legal mode of transport "as soon as parliamentary time becomes available", then planners of new road schemes need to take this into account *today*. Modal share growth for microbility vehicles is inevitable.

bbc.co.uk'The genie's out of the bottle' in Birmingham and Wolverhampton as new e-scooter laws plannedChanges are planned by the government but meet a mixed response in the West Midlands.

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Liam Duffy
@liamduffy.dev

That junction design that they've convinced themselves is just about passable for cycling, with shared space bits, or paint for protection? Now imagine it in a world where e-scooters are legal and (even more) commonplace.

Liam Duffy
@liamduffy.dev

As much as many cyclists won't want to share space with buses, e-scooter riders on their little wheels *really* won't find that appealing! e.g. does anyone genuinely think that the big new pavement build outs on Pembury Circus won't have people scooting across them from day one?