Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Scooters

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

By Aaron Short | May 15, 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 a Step Backward

By Marcel E. Moran | Apr 4, 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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Study: Balancing Equity & Density with Scooters

By Roger Rudick | Feb 8, 2021 | No Comments

There's a natural tension between providing for undeserved areas and achieving the density needed for the system to work

Taken in 2018 at Townsend and Lusk. Photo: Walk SF's "Scooters Behaving Badly" page

Open Thread: Are E-Scooters a Distraction from Making Safe Streets?

By Roger Rudick | Sep 26, 2019 | 27 Comments

13 lbs of plastic, battery, motor and some electronics... and a major distraction from the death and destruction automobiles and trucks continue to rain down on our cities

Scooters on Market Street. Photo: Andy Bosselman

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No, a Scooter Company Didn’t “Red Line” Poor Neighborhoods

By Roger Rudick | Aug 19, 2019 | No Comments

Last week's click-bait headline about Scoot red lining in the Tenderloin and Chinatown doesn't add up

Cap the Number of Scooters? Don’t be Surprised They’re Not Well Distributed

By Roger Rudick | May 1, 2019 | 12 Comments

Those same caps are also increasing Vehicle Miles Traveled and greenhouse gases

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