Weekly Scooter Media Brief: September 10-20
It seemed like maybe the pace of electric scooter news was slowing. Wrong.
We present the most comprehensive weekly scooter media brief of all time (compared to issues one, two, and three, anyway).
National News
- Still Smarting From Uber, Cities Wise Up About Scooter Data (Wired, Sept. 18)
- Scooter and e-bike renter Lime to enter dozens more cities (Reuters, Sept. 20)
National Commentary
- What the battle over scooters gets wrong (University of California, Sept. 18)
- Can e-scooters solve the ‘last mile’ problem? They’ll need to avoid the fate of dockless bikes (The Conversation, Sept. 20)
- Have Electric Scooters Pushed Cities Too Far? (National Law Review, Sept. 20)
National Media, Local News
- E-Scooter Companies to Ride Out Florence Indoors, Not on Street (Bloomberg Government, Sept. 13)
- Lyft deploys electric scooters in Santa Monica (Tech Crunch, Sept. 18)
- To Live and Scoot in L.A.(Bloomberg, Sept. 18)
- Santa Monica, CA kicks off Shared Mobility Pilot Program (Smart Cities Dive, Sept. 18)
- Pentagon Declares War on Scooters (Defense One, Sept. 19)
- Fatal e-scooter accident emerges just as California legalizes riding without a helmet (The Washington Post, Sept. 20)
Local News
- Birmingham kicks Bird out of the nest: City impounding scooters, fining company (AL.com, Sept. 10)
- Scooters and app-rented bicycles prompt new San Diego panel focused on mobility solutions (San Diego Union-Tribue, Sept. 13)
- Knoxville issues 150-day ban on rented electric scooters, bikes (Wate, Sept. 13)
- In response to complaints, Bird creates ‘no-go zones’ where its scooters aren’t welcome (Los Angeles Times, Sept. 14)
- San Diego continues hands-off approach as electric scooter injuries mount (San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 16)
- California adults get OK to ride motorized scooters without helmets (San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 19)
- Brown exempts adults from wearing helmets on scooters (The Sacramento Bee, Sept. 19)
- Rejected scooter company files appeal, calls SF permit process ‘secret’ and ‘unlawful’ (San Francisco Examiner, September 19)
- Cincinnati bans electric scooters from sidewalks (Fox19, Sept. 20)
- The dos and don'ts of riding those electric scooters under proposed city regulations (San Antonio News-Express, Sept. 20)
- Scooters banned from San Jose's Villa Calle (The Mercury News, Sept. 20)
- Bloomington Not Planning To Add Regulations For Electric Scooters (Indiana Public Media, Sept. 20)
- Electric skateboard maker takes on Bird, Lime with scooter for sale (Denver Business Journal, Sept. 20)
- Year-old Bird surpasses 10 million rides (L.A. Biz, Sept. 20)
Local Commentary
- The Bird is the Word, With Reservations (The Harvard Crimson, Sept. 19)
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