Electric Scooters

Tilikum Crossing

Report: Shared Bikes and Scooters Could Reduce Car Trips By 50 Percent in Downtowns

A new report by INRIX Research ranks cities in the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany for the potential of micrombility devices to reduce automobile trips.

September 16, 2019 - The Oregonian

Scooter Share

Why Bird Ended its Infrastructure Funding Program

Months after ending a program to help cities fund transportation infrastructure improvements, a company official says city governments were misusing the funds.

September 9, 2019 - Smart Cities Dive

Atlanta, Georgia

After a Bus Kills a Scooter Rider, Two Councilmembers Call for Complete Streets

No victim blaming or scooter shaming here. Two Atlanta politicians have responded to a recent tragedy by calling for more traffic safety improvements.

July 22, 2019 - WSB-TV - Atlanta

Venice Beach Pedestrian and Bike Path

Statewide Scooter Bill Falls Short in California

Legislation that would have preempted local laws, and had the support of major scooter companies, is now a two-year bill.

July 6, 2019 - San Francisco Examiner

Scooter Vigilante Shut Down

A scooter vigilante's activities in Scottsdale were short lived. A local columnist has an ambivalent take on the story.

June 16, 2019 - Arizona Republic

Bird Cruiser

Bird's the Word: A Two-Wheeled, Two-Seater Electric Bike

Bird, a brand synonymous with electric scooters, recently unveiled a new electric bike.

June 5, 2019 - TechCrunch

Scooter Citations

State Preemption and Electric Scooters

The great battle between local control and state preemption shifts focus again in California. This time micromobility, electric scooters and the like, are on the front line of the conflict.

May 21, 2019 - CityLab

Uber Driver

Uber and Lyft Worry They'll Be Forced to Share Ride-Hailing Data After Sharing Scooter Data

A fight over the travel data of shared use mobility companies is just starting in Los Angeles.

May 17, 2019 - Wired

Ohio

Electric Scooters Less Common in Low-Income Neighborhoods, Despite Local Regulations

Regulations for the operation of electric scooter share in Columbus, Ohio require companies to distribute scooter in low-income neighborhoods. The companies haven't been living up to their part of the deal.

May 14, 2019 - The Columbus Dispatch

Paris Mobility

CDC Releases Report on Electric Scooters and Public Health

A highly anticipated analysis of public health outcomes caused by the proliferation of electric scooters has been released. Most of the reported are considered preventable.

May 4, 2019 - CityLab

Bike Share Electric Scooters

A Local's Guide to Micromobility

Local governments struggling to keep up with the fast-paced innovations of the micromobility industry can make use of a new report from the National league of Cities.

April 28, 2019 - Smart Cities Dive

Valencia, Spain

Electric Scooters Blast Profanity and Racism After Hacking in Australia

People have found many destructive ways to express their displeasure with electric scooter share, but this is a first.

April 27, 2019 - The Washington Post

Lime Scooter

A Company of Scooter Vigilantes Sparks a Lawsuit

A lawsuit by Bird and Lime against the company Scooter Removal highlights the difficult challenges required to reconcile the private interests of new mobility companies with the access to the public realm on which they depend.

April 20, 2019 - Jalopnik

Florida Bikeshare

The State of Micromobility

The NACTO Bike Share and Micromobility Initiative yesterday published a bunch of data and infographics to explain the state of shared micromobility, defined as station-based bikeshare, dockless bike share, and scooter share.

April 18, 2019 - NACTO

San Francisco Bike Lane

Scooter Media Brief: Electric Scooters Emerge Victorious in the Dockless Bike Share Game

At the beginning of 2017, few people in the United States could have predicted the quick rise to prominence of dockless bike share companies. Even fewer could have predicted what would happen next.

April 10, 2019 - James Brasuell

Scooter Citations

Scooter Media Brief: Safety, Security, and Business Models Raise Concerns

Recent news has revealed some cracks in the pavement below the speedy wheels of electric scooter share.

March 13, 2019 - James Brasuell

Electric Scooter Share

Scooter Media Brief: A Fork in the Road for Scooters

A few milestones stick out from the rest of the scooter news from January 2019.

January 30, 2019 - James Brasuell

E-Scooters

Scooter Media Brief: The Dawn of the Age of Scooters

Electric scooter rentals will never be new again.

December 31, 2018 - James Brasuell

Dockless Scooter Share

Scooter Media Brief: Then the CDC Rode In

There's still plenty of electric scooter news in the world.

December 14, 2018 - James Brasuell

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

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