There was much rejoicing when the good news finally arrived.

And mamma in her kerchief, and I in my cap, / Had just settled down for a long winter's nap […]

Their boggy breasts out-lay, and Skipton down doth crawl

Melburnians could be forgiven for having a rather sceptical view on the viability of shared micro-mobility programs, since, as Dr Elliot Fishman, director of the Institute for Sensible Transport, put it: “Melbourne doesn’t have a particularly successful history of running these schemes.”