Would be great if the companies were forced to more tightly regulate where / how their product is stored. Really don't want to be one of those city's where bird scooters are lying around everywhere making the streets less ADA accessible. Lord knows our city is too cozy with tech and cares too little for its citizens to actually regulate these companies, or their riders.

You guys do not want this. There aren't docks for these and people literally drop them anywhere and everywhere. The middle of the sidewalk, the grass, and even up your ass. This would absolutely be terrible for Manhattan. They are barred from Manhattan.* The only plus side is that they aren't anywhere near as fast as electric citibikes.

Have you been to NY before?

I’ve seen people do what you just described with their children! It’s not that serious.

Except even the DOT raised concerns citing that they found 24% of scooters improperly parked, and I've personally seen them lying around in the restricted "red-zones" where they supposedly shouldn't be. There's a reason these are barred from Manhattan and likely not coming to other Boros. They even raised concerns about how it took away from transit ridership instead of car ridership lol. This shit is definitely staying in the Bronx.

Lmfao Revels business model literally involves allowing the common moron to ride mopeds with no training or oversight

Yeah its reallllly stupid

Agency discovered that scooters are mostly replacing walking or transit trips, rather than car trips. Great, more unhealthy people.

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Yep, then they could capture some revenue from renting the space. Instead they allow them to just be thrown around neighborhoods and take up sidewalk / crosswalk and sometimes even street space with no revenue gained from the city for the inconvenience, and less accessible sidewalks for everyone else.

DC required the scooters be locked to bike racks when not used.

Of course, DC also required the companies install thousands of new bike racks before approving their permits.

It's very convenient and I agree assholes that abuse it like riding in bike lanes should be banned. The law is if it top speed is 30 or less you don't need a motorcycle license for it

I'm fine with it. I used bird and uber a lot while I was in la and got used to the littered escooters everywhere

I do want this even if it's worse than what you outlined here. If 1 out of 1000 people decided to ride this instead of taking an Uber, I'll consider it a win in my book.

As a Bronx native, whoever's idea it was to drop this 💩on us should be handcuffed to one like a ball and chain.

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Paris has designated parking spots for them all over. Pretty convenient too cause then you know where to find them. And you can fit a ton of these in one or two car parking spots.

And it’s pretty harshly enforced. You have to take a picture of the scooter in the spot and if you don’t do it you will get a big ticket.

Oh nooooooi