BOCA RATON, FL (Boca Post) (Copyright © 2025) — Boca Raton is looking for public input on micro-mobility — how safe it feels, who it’s serving, and what changes would make people more likely to use it.
The city has launched “BOCA on the Move: A Micro-Mobility Safety Survey,” a brief, 13-question poll that asks residents, visitors, and business owners to share how they get around and what they want to see next. The pitch from the city is straightforward: share what matters most to you on micro-mobility, safety, and access, and help shape future mobility and transportation efforts so they reflect real community needs.
The survey opens with basic context questions, including zip code and what you rely on most to get around day-to-day. From there, it gets more specific about micro-mobility use — including how often people use options like bike share, e-scooters, or personal e-bikes, and what they use them for. Respondents can choose from multiple reasons, including commuting to work or school, convenience for short trips, recreation, first/last-mile connections to public transit, or selecting that they don’t use micro-mobility at all.
A big section of the survey asks people to rank priorities and benefits. One prompt asks what the biggest benefit is of micro-mobility options like bikes, e-bikes, and scooters in Boca Raton, listing choices such as reducing traffic congestion, reducing air pollution and carbon emissions, exercise and health benefits, affordability by avoiding car expenses, and building community connections.
Another question asks how familiar respondents are with the rules for sharing the road safely with pedestrians, cyclists, and motor vehicles, offering options that range from “very familiar” to “I didn’t know there were specific rules!” It’s one of the clearer signals in the survey about what the city may be trying to measure: not just infrastructure, but awareness and behavior, too.
Electric bikes get their own set of questions. The survey asks whether respondents or anyone in their household uses electric bikes, what factor most influences the decision to use one, and what the biggest challenges are. Options include the availability of safe and accessible infrastructure, affordability of rental or purchase, environmental sustainability, and convenience and time savings. For challenges, it lists battery life and charging, lack of safe infrastructure, maintenance and repairs, weather conditions, and finding secure parking or storage — along with the option to say you don’t use an electric bike.
Safety perceptions are also directly addressed. One question asks how safe you feel using micro-mobility in your community today, with responses ranging from “very safe” to “unsafe.” Another asks who micro-mobility currently serves best in Boca Raton, offering choices like young professionals or students, people who already bike regularly, tourists or visitors, everyone, or “no one uses micro-mobility.”
The last stretch of the survey is about what the city should prioritize next. Respondents are asked to rank a list of potential improvements or initiatives based on importance. The list includes building more protected bike lanes, building more shared-use paths or trails, building wider sidewalks, improving bike parking and anti-theft infrastructure, offering subsidies or incentives for micro-mobility devices, and expanding education and awareness campaigns.
The final question asks what would encourage people to use micro-mobility devices more often. The options shown include safer infrastructure, lower costs, better parking, more education, and more enforcement.
City messaging around the survey frames it as part of a larger goal: delivering a safe, efficient, and interconnected multimodal mobility system that benefits the entire community. In plain terms, they’re asking what’s missing right now — and what would make Boca feel safer and easier to move through whether you’re on foot, on two wheels, or behind the wheel.
The survey is available online and appears designed to be completed quickly. It is listed as anonymous.
Ready to share your thoughts with the City of Boca Raton? Fill out to the official survey
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