Importantly Ofo is leaving as they might be overstretched at a national level, not because of any reasons that are specific to St Louis
https://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/new ... louis.html
https://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/new ... louis.html
^ Oh I agree with you about the permits. It isn't hard, there was no reason not to do that first. It should be just as easy to go apply now though, even though they should have in the first place.
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to be fair, the permitting process only addresses bikes and not scooters, but i believe the city is in the process of amending that to address scooters too.
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Lime is looking to bring its electric scooters to St. Louis.
https://fox2now.com/2018/07/27/lime-int ... -st-louis/
The scooters will start to show up around St. Louis, St. Louis County, and at transit centers across the bi-state area. Both the company and the city believe electric scooters will soon help to level the playing field for opportunities and equality for all.
https://fox2now.com/2018/07/27/lime-int ... -st-louis/
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-$1 to start and 15 cents per minute after
-top speed is 20mph
-22 mile per charge
-you can sign up to charge them overnight, you get $5-$20 per scooter costs you about .34cents to fully charge one (must drop off between 5-7am)
watch out for potholes
dont break too hard
most of the time you dont have to break, just ease of the gas button
at the end of your ride, go to the app and click end ride, it will ask you to take a photo so it knows you parked it correctly
-top speed is 20mph
-22 mile per charge
-you can sign up to charge them overnight, you get $5-$20 per scooter costs you about .34cents to fully charge one (must drop off between 5-7am)
watch out for potholes
dont break too hard
most of the time you dont have to break, just ease of the gas button
at the end of your ride, go to the app and click end ride, it will ask you to take a photo so it knows you parked it correctly
Don’t ban scooters. Redesign streets. Cities are regulating mobility startups, but ignoring the real problem—there’s still too much space for cars https://www.curbed.com/word-on-the-stre ... me-streets
I was downtown Saturday around Noon. There were several scooters in use around Kiener Plaza and the Old Courthouse. It was a weekend with the Cubs in town, but it was great to see so much foot traffic, and the Lime scooters seemed to be getting plenty of use.10-intuition wrote: ↑Jul 28, 2018Lime is looking to bring its electric scooters to St. Louis.
The scooters will start to show up around St. Louis, St. Louis County, and at transit centers across the bi-state area. Both the company and the city believe electric scooters will soon help to level the playing field for opportunities and equality for all.
https://fox2now.com/2018/07/27/lime-int ... -st-louis/
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These scooters are a menace downtown. You can't walk two blocks without some inconsiderate clown buzzing by on the sidewalk at 15mph or more.
Injured pedestrians are soon to follow with such widespread, unsafe sidewalk usage.
Injured pedestrians are soon to follow with such widespread, unsafe sidewalk usage.
You can't have 15mph vehicles on a sidewalk with pedestrians.
You exit a building or round a corner, get smashed and you will most definitely be in need of medical attention.
It's already happening elsewhere.
Anything moving faster than a jogging speed belongs in the street. But only a small number that I saw were in the street.
Scooters downtown are going far closer to car speeds than pedestrian speeds, yet, inexplicably, they're mostly on sidewalks.
You exit a building or round a corner, get smashed and you will most definitely be in need of medical attention.
It's already happening elsewhere.
Anything moving faster than a jogging speed belongs in the street. But only a small number that I saw were in the street.
Scooters downtown are going far closer to car speeds than pedestrian speeds, yet, inexplicably, they're mostly on sidewalks.
I was in CWE yesterday and all the scooters were in the street with the bikes. But it probably is easier on side roads to be in the street since cars aren't going as fast.
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If anything this should be a huge factor in the creation of more separated bike lanes throughout the city on bigger roads. Clearly some kinks need to be worked out with scooter-share but the service has the chance to be REVOLUTIONARY in how people get around urban areas. Unfortunately I can definitely see STL pulling an STL and just banning them outright.
The founders of Revel, an e-scooter-share startup, think U.S. cities are ready for a bigger, faster kind of boosted bike. https://www.citylab.com/transportation/ ... ca/566843/
Dockless bike, scooter firms clash with U.S. cities over regulations
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/tr ... c934e37842
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/tr ... c934e37842
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Apparently it's already been the law in St. Louis since 2001 for scooter riders to wear helmets and to stay on the street or in alleys at all times except when parking, and it can be enforced by up to a $500 fine or 90 days in jail. Lime and Bird claim that they already make all riders aware of both requirements, but I suppose it doesn't stop anyone from actually disobeying them. The police are also focusing on reducing violent crime rather than enforcing the requirements for those riding scooters, according to the article.
RFT - 13 Things We Learned by Rigorously Testing St. Louis' New Lime Scooters
https://www.riverfronttimes.com/artsblo ... e-scooters
https://www.riverfronttimes.com/artsblo ... e-scooters
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I think soon there won't be bike share, Lime months ago dropped Bike from its name and its clearly focusing on scooters and E-bikes, even their website just mentions those two.
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weird. never any scooters in downtown clayton, not sure if there is an issue with them in county jurisdictions. i tend to walk downtown and then grab a bike and coast downhill home, i love it, it's so cheap. it's already altered my mode share.dbInSouthCity wrote: ↑Aug 09, 2018I think soon there won't be bike share, Lime months ago dropped Bike from its name and its clearly focusing on scooters and E-bikes, even their website just mentions those two.
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Has anyone noticed that there are fewer bikes now since Lime scooter share arrived? I know the scooters are convenient and labor-free and all, but I prefer the bikes because they're cheaper and more intuitive to use.
I noticed when Lime scooters first came around, there were way more scooters than bikes, but after a week or two bikes went back to like 50% of Lime vehicles. Guess they're testing out the waters by responding to demand? And they also need to compete with Bird now too. I wonder if they'll end up pushing Bird out of the market like Ofo, though Ofo also left for other reasons.
I noticed when Lime scooters first came around, there were way more scooters than bikes, but after a week or two bikes went back to like 50% of Lime vehicles. Guess they're testing out the waters by responding to demand? And they also need to compete with Bird now too. I wonder if they'll end up pushing Bird out of the market like Ofo, though Ofo also left for other reasons.
Driving through the BJC complex this morning a noticed several docs zipping around on scooters. Seems like a perfect use for them (although I do think some serious sidewalk-sharing issues need to be worked out).
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I did notice and i asked Lime, they're down about 700 bikes from peak of about 1100 due to spare parts being stuck at various ports but in the next two weeks they should have about 750 more bikes/scooters out againmoltingcicada wrote: ↑Aug 10, 2018Has anyone noticed that there are fewer bikes now since Lime scooter share arrived? I know the scooters are convenient and labor-free and all, but I prefer the bikes because they're cheaper and more intuitive to use.
I noticed when Lime scooters first came around, there were way more scooters than bikes, but after a week or two bikes went back to like 50% of Lime vehicles. Guess they're testing out the waters by responding to demand? And they also need to compete with Bird now too. I wonder if they'll end up pushing Bird out of the market like Ofo, though Ofo also left for other reasons.
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^ just saw a kid riding around on a Lime bike with the lock mechanism broken off. it was funny because they spray painted just over the logo, as if you can't tell that it's a lime bike if you can't read the word "Lime". i wonder how many they've lost to theft. i've seen a number of them around Dutchtown with the locks broken off. ofo's too.
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Last i heard, Lime has lost about 105 bikes since April 15th.
Dont like scooters?
It could get very ugly here as it did here:
Fed-up locals are setting electric scooters on fire and burying them at sea
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-m ... story.html
It could get very ugly here as it did here:
Fed-up locals are setting electric scooters on fire and burying them at sea
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-m ... story.html