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Summer Postcards: Alternative Transportation Takes Many Forms Around the World

Even while on vacation, WTI staff members can’t help but notice new and interesting ways that people travel from place to place. Check out David Kack’s photos from Denmark, where the bicycle is a very well-established mode of daily commuter travel, and where boats provide taxi service. Lisa Hughes and Neil Hetherington shared photos and video from San Diego, Los Angeles and Barcelona, where electric scooters and dockless bikes are rapidly growing in popularity. Anyone else have transportation photos to share from summer travels?

Images of established alternate transportation modes in Denmark. Water taxis and bicycle commuting. Photos by David Kack
Images of established alternate transportation modes in Denmark. Water taxis and bicycle commuting. Photos by David Kack

Collection of images of the public using the Popular dockless electric scooters in use around Los Angeles.
Popular dockless electric scooters in use around Los Angeles.


Shared electric scooters provide an easy way to get around cities.

Enhanced alternates to traditional bike commuting with bike share, eBikes and other electronic conveyances take advantage of bike lane infrastructure. A selection of images showing bikes, Segways and eBikes in Barcelona.
Enhanced alternates to traditional bike commuting with bike share, eBikes and other electronic conveyances take advantage of existing bike lane infrastructure in Barcelona.