Chattanooga Electric Bike Co. owners John Mathna and Diana Davies are working to improve the bikeability of Chattanooga and promote micromobility, which involves the use of small, lightweight transportation devices such as electric bikes and scooters that typically travel at speeds less than 25 mph.
Some of their suggestions are fairly simple, such as adding more bike racks around town.
“We’ll go places, and we have to tie our bikes up to a tree because there aren’t any bike racks,” Davies says.
Other ideas are a bit more complicated, involving changes in streetscapes and how people interact with their surroundings.
They recently met with Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly, along with the city’s Director of Parks Scott Martin and Deputy Chief Operating Officer Julia Bursch, about installing more bike lanes on cross streets to help complete a bikeable grid within the city.