Dockless Scooter Share

Dockless Scooter

Scooter Media Brief: We Still Haven't Figured Scooters Out

A few notes on the policy landscape and media narratives that have emerged in response to the sudden appearance of electric scooter rental companies onto the planning scene.

November 20, 2018 - James Brasuell

Halloween

Friday Funny: South Park Rides the E-Scooter Revolution

The most topical show on television got in on the e-scooter craze this week.

November 2, 2018 - James Brasuell

Madrid Muving

Coming Soon to a City Near You: Dockless Vespa Share

The electric scooter sharing company Muving offers Vespa-style scooters for rent, and it's already operating in Atlanta. D.C. could be next.

October 25, 2018 - WTOP

Scooter and Bike Share

Portland Has the Scooter User Survey Data Everyone Wants

The city of Portland has released the survey results enabled by the Portland Bureau of Transportation's ongoing electric scooter pilot project.

October 23, 2018 - The Portland Mercury

Paris Mobility

Scooter Media Brief for October 2018

News of a class action lawsuit leads the headlines in the Wild West of mini mobility devices.

October 23, 2018 - James Brasuell

Valencia, Spain

Weekly Scooter Media Brief: September 21-27, 2018

Recent electric scooter news is defined by tragedy.

September 28, 2018 - Planetizen

Venice Beach Pedestrian and Bike Path

Weekly Scooter Media Brief: September 3–11

The news and opinions are filling newspapers and websites faster than electric scooters are filling sidewalks.

September 12, 2018 - Planetizen

Scooter Share

Weekly Electric Scooter Media Brief: Aug. 29 – Sept. 4

The second installment "Weekly Electric Scooter Media Brief" presents a veritable cornucopia of breaking news, opinions, and insights into the wild west of electric scooter regulation.

September 5, 2018 - Planetizen

Scooter Share

More Rights, Fewer Responsibilities, for Electric Scooter Riders in California

A bill that would toss the helmet requirement for adult e- scooter riders and allow them to ride on roads where the speed limit is 35 mph, up from the current limit of 25 mph, is on Governor Jerry Brown's desk. He has until Sept. 30 to decide.

September 4, 2018 - San Francisco Chronicle

Electric Scooters

Weekly Electric Scooter Media Brief

The first installment of an easy-to-gather collection of media coverage on electric scooters, the companies who rent them, the cities who regulate them (or not), and the public who loves (or hates) them.

August 30, 2018 - Planetizen

Bike Share

Baltimore Municipal Bike Share Ends; Private Bike Share Pilot Begins

Dockless electric scooters and bikes are welcome on the streets of Baltimore, as long as they follow a few rules. In related news, the municipal bike share system Baltimore Bike Share has ceased operations.

August 25, 2018 - The Baltimore Sun

Scooter Citations

Pilot Bike and Scooter Share Program Inspires Protest in Santa Monica

Bird and Lime launched their "Day Without A Scooter" protest this week.

August 16, 2018 - Santa Monica Daily Press

E-Scooters

Making the Case for Small, Shared, Electric Transport Modes

Tony Dutzik, senior policy analyst with the Frontier Group, presents three environmental reasons to support shared bikes and scooters, and why cities that have adopted climate plans should accommodate these small, clean, shared vehicles.

July 4, 2018 - Frontier Group

Indego

Philadelphia to License Dockless Bike and Scooter Share Companies

Philadelphia offers another regulatory model to respond to the proliferation of dockless bike, ebike, and electric scooter share companies.

June 27, 2018 - PlanPhilly

Scooter Share

Scooter War Now a Scooter Competition

Three scooter companies, Lime, Bird and Spin, removed their scooters from the sidewalks of San Francisco earlier this month and applied, with nine other companies, for five permits to operate up to 2,500 scooters in a tightly regulated pilot program.

June 25, 2018 - San Francisco Chronicle

Electric Scooters

A Kinder and Gentler Approach to Scooters

It's a temporary experiment, but Santa Monica will not cap the number of scooters operated by private companies in the city.

June 15, 2018 - Los Angeles Times

E-Scooters

Plugging in Scooters for a Living

Electric scooters need maintenance and charges, so Bird is using the gig economy to make sure its scooters keep scooting.

May 12, 2018 - Curbed

Electric Scooters

Scooter Mania in San Francisco

Entitled tech bros! Disrupted sidewalks! Mass impound sweeps! Social media convulsions!

April 17, 2018 - TechCrunch

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