New York City Picks E-Scooter Companies for Bronx Rollout

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Bird, Lime and Veo have been selected for a New York City share program deploying up to 6,000 electric scooters in parts of the Bronx

New York City has selected three companies to participate in an electric-scooter-share pilot program that is expected to launch in parts of the Bronx this summer.perceived as a prize for micromobility companies“New York is more than a tremendous victory for us,” said Candice Xie, chief executive of Chicago-based Veo. “We take this program really seriously and want to make sure it is sustainable and can grow in the long term.

Micromobility companies and transit advocates have said e-scooters, which average about one mile per trip, replace short car journeys and help people who live more than a short walk from a subway station or bus stop. New York lags behind many other U.S. cities that launched e-scooter-share systems during the past few years. Some cities

about scooters being ridden erratically and parked carelessly, as well as instances of serious and, in some cases, fatal accidents.

 

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Isn’t Paul Steely White formerly of Transportation Alternatives the executive director of Bird? this was his racist quote

Hahaha the Bronx!! Good luck with that program

Paws for while! Meow!

desusnice THEKIDMERO

Expect lots of broken wrists. Emergency rooms already have enough to deal with.

The most dangerous thing to scooters in NYC are pedestrians.

🤣🤣 nightmares are shared now?

lilsamsquanch66

During lockdowns Guess you can scooter away from a ticket 🤣

Why, these things have failed most places

WOW.... TERRIBLE TERRIBLE IDEA. FUCK THAT

All of them will gone by next Monday

This is going to end well 😂

We have them in our city and they’re on sidewalks and running people over

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