Electric Scooters
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.
Jalopnik
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.
NACTO
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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.
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Recent news has revealed some cracks in the pavement below the speedy wheels of electric scooter share.
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A few milestones stick out from the rest of the scooter news from January 2019.
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Electric scooter rentals will never be new again.
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There's still plenty of electric scooter news in the world.
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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.
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The most topical show on television got in on the e-scooter craze this week.
The electric scooter sharing company Muving offers Vespa-style scooters for rent, and it's already operating in Atlanta. D.C. could be next.
WTOP
The city of Portland has released the survey results enabled by the Portland Bureau of Transportation's ongoing electric scooter pilot project.
The Portland Mercury
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News of a class action lawsuit leads the headlines in the Wild West of mini mobility devices.
Motorists tend to look out for hazards they expect. If tiny vehicles proliferate, including electric scooters, greater safety will follow.
Streetsblog USA
A new initiative will provide access to the city’s shared mobility services to get commuters to find alternatives to driving alone.
The Denver Post
Recent electric scooter news is defined by tragedy.
Planetizen
It seemed like maybe the pace of electric scooter news was slowing. Wrong.
Planetizen
The news and opinions are filling newspapers and websites faster than electric scooters are filling sidewalks.
Planetizen
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.
Planetizen
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.
San Francisco Chronicle
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.
Planetizen
