Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Scooters

Scooter Companies Talk Best Practices (Though Low Speed Limits May Be Counter-Productive)

By Aaron Short | May 17, 2023 | No Comments

Transportation companies want more Americans to ditch their cars for emissions-free travel — and they’ve figured out the ways that entice people to use electric scooters and bikes.

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Op-Ed: Paris Scooter Ban Is a Step Backward For Sustainable Transport

By Marcel E. Moran | Apr 5, 2023 | No Comments

For the global city that has put the world on notice over the past decade for embracing sustainable transport, Paris recently took a disappointing step backward by enacting a ban on shared scooters, known locally as trottinettes.

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Consider the Humble Kick Scooter

By Arian Horbovetz | Aug 3, 2022 | No Comments

Why is there such a social stigma around such a practical transportation tool?

Bird e-scooters, pictured during a product demonstration in Queens. Photo: Bird/Dennis A. Clark

Two Scooter Companies Claim They Have the Tech to Stop Sidewalk Parking

By Eve Kessler | May 11, 2022 | No Comments

Two e-scooter-share companies, Bird and Lime, unveiled new tech for combatting the single-biggest complaint about scooters: riders who leave them all over the sidewalk.

Streetsblog’s ‘Field Guide to Micro Mobility’

By Streetsblog | Nov 5, 2021 | No Comments

To put aside some of the confusion, Streetsblog has created an indispensable handbook to all the different moving things out there.

Bronxite riding down Pelham Parkway after unlocking at corral. Photo: Fiifi Frimpong

E-Scooter Pilot in The Bronx Offers New Mode … On Same Old Dangerous Roads

By Fiifi Frimpong | Sep 1, 2021 | No Comments

"Would I ride a scooter? Absolutely not," Bronx resident John Schewerer told Streetsblog the other day.

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