Lime has exiting or has exited markets recently. In a blog post Brad Bao, the CEO and co-founder of Lime, announced the company would be leaving 12 cities around the world in order to shift “our primary focus to profitability.” Those cities include: Atlanta; Phoenix, Ariz.; San Diego, Calif.; San Antonio, Texas; Linz, Austria; Bogota, […]
Lime now enforces speed limits on its Tel Aviv scooters. Starting earlier this week, the company’s scooters—which have a maximum speed of 25 kilometers per hour—automatically slow down when reaching certain areas. On the city’s central Ibn Gabirol Street, the speed limit is 14.5 km per hour, while in areas where riding e-scooters is forbidden, […]
Portland Bureau of Transportation Portland’s announced Friday the electric scooter pilot program will extend until the end of 2020. PBOT said the program extension will provide the city more time to study the impacts of e-scooters on Portland’s transportation system. “We think that there is potential for shared e-scooters to be one of our solutions […]
Users of e-scooters and electric bikes, in Singapore will soon need to pass a theory test prior to riding in public, the Ministry of Transport (MOT) announced. The ministry has also expanded a code of conduct that currently focuses on personal mobility device (PMD) users to include guidelines for pedestrians. In a move follow the […]
NIU’s electric scooters ware now for sale in the USA!These scooters are already well loked in the Eu and China. NIU scooters were use as part of Revel’s scooter-sharing program in US, so some of you may have already rode one. Now that retail sales started this week in the US, we now know what […]
A few more thousands electric scooters will hit the street San Francisco today, as three companies now have permits to sell their rides in the city by the bay. People who are not fans of of eScoots, did get city hall to cut the maximum number of scooters which each permit holder may put out […]
A one-year agreement between UCLA and three electric scooter companies will impose new restrictions on where students can use e-scooters. On the positive side it also may provide discounts for students, as well. The one-year pilot program, negotiated by UCLA Transportation with Bird, Lyft and Wheels, will take effect in the fall. The agreement is […]
Accessibility for Ontarians , a group which advocates for the rights of disabled Ontarians, wants the province to not go forward with a proposed five-year e-scooter pilot project before it begins. Even with those limitations, allowing e-scooters on the roads will make it harder for people with disabilities to get around, and could lead to more injuries, […]
New York state lawmakers in June 2019 voted to legalize e-scooters and e-bikes in New York state and allow cities to decide on how to regulate e-scooter sharing programs. The legislation is still pending Gov. Cuomo’s approval, and as written, the bill won’t allow e-scooter sharing programs in Manhattan. Now A study by INRIX Research analyzed […]
e-scooters should be banned in Germany due to the increased number of accidents involving such vehicles, Andreas Gassen, head of the association of German statutory health insurance physicians (KBV), said on Monday. “E-scooters should be completely banned. Only that would help avoid injuries,” Gassen told the German newspaper Neue Osnabruecker Zeitung. “From a medical point […]
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