The scooters are back! A company called Spin, a subsidiary of Ford Motor, is pitching new and improved scooters and hopes to convince City Hall to allow a fleet of them on Dallas streets. There is no way this goes well.The Wall Street Journal dubbed Dallas “ground zero for a nascent national bike-share war”. Five start-ups had flooded Dallas streets with 18,000 ride-share bicycles, the largest flotilla of bikes in the nation.
It took about two years for scooters to run their course. With 12,000 scooters littering sidewalks and parks in exactly the same manner the bikes had, hundreds of emergency room visits and complaints of drunk scooting, the Dallas transportation department halted the city’s scooter programme in September 2020, citing public safety concerns.
That said, Spin does seem to have solved some of the most common misuses of these devices. An alarm sounds if the scooters are ridden on a sidewalk, and users can be fined if they park a scooter in an unauthorised area. But one final detail may serve to illustrate how well-considered this plan is. Spin’s launch event was held at a plaza near City Hall — just behind a sign that declared it a misdemeanour to operate skateboards, bicycles and other small wheeled vehicles in the area.
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