Scooter Program
- The four-month electric scooter pilot in Chicago, both celebrated and reviled by residents, comes to an end Tuesday.
As of last week, people had taken 772,450 rides on electric scooters, according to the city’s Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection. That’s about 7,000 trips a day. The city’s goal for the program was to determine if scooters would improve transportation access, reduce single-occupancy car use and provide a way to get to and from public transit.
Was it a success? It depends on how you measure it, and whom you ask.
It also depends on the ER visits and how many scooters ended up chopped up for scrap, liberated from GPS for personal use and in the river just for giggles.
The city is deciding if it should roll out a permanent program next year. See if you can spot the connected company that's sure to win some sort of "contract:"
The city is deciding if it should roll out a permanent program next year. See if you can spot the connected company that's sure to win some sort of "contract:"
- The city issued 39 citations to scooter companies, for problems ranging from not having a working front light to not responding to complaints. Of the 10 companies, only Lyft, which operates the city’s Divvy bike share system, received no citations. Lime was cited just once. Bird and Chicago-based VeoRide had the most, with seven each.
We're surprised Groot didn't have Special Ed or Special Fred try some sort of Scooter Patrol downtown to supplement or replace the bike units.
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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
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Scooter patrol is coming. Summer only. They will just call for a beat car to handle their job. Will count as cops on the street though
I've heard of gang bangers taking out the lithium batteries and selling them for $$$$.
Liability insurance, plus maintenance, must be costing the companies who own the scooters a fortune. I just don't see how these scooters are a profitable business.Are they bring subsided by the city?
Just walk or take a bamn bicycle.
The local dope dealers will miss them, it provided efficient transportation from block to block.
The Tribune will only focus on scooter program racism-how no scooter in da hood lowers the morale of ‘kids’ and prevents them from getting to school and jobs.
A wonderful idea ,,, all they need to do is mandate all command staff use scooters all the time,, leadership is all that's needed
On our way to a Disabled Society, we will look back
upon these days and remember them as milestones.
We were so smart as a people we crippled ourselves.
Lori the lying reformer will give the contract to a firm of color who has been historically disenfranchised by past scooter discrimination.
They scare me.
Harley has halted production of electric bikes and
directed owners not to charge them at home. No mention of
what prompted this directive. H-D is taking a big hit until this
technology gets ironed out. In the rush to be first a lot of
companies gonna get burned.
Paul Blart -scooter cop?
Soon they'll be building scooter lanes, right next to bike lanes
Use the city has subsidized all the programs. Agreed it replace any missing or damaged scooters. Your tax dollars at work.
All depends how the scooter lobby can steer campaign money into the coffers of the corrupt city now that Burke and so many others have brought so much attention to bidness as usual.
Pyramid scooter scheme made its money on commissions, the losses will be left on the backs of the investors.
Fold, regroup and on to next big idea.
The long delayed of the over budget, expensive, needless Navy Pier area flyover walkway to nowhere (something a delayed 4 way stop traffic signal could have done) will also make trudging upwards too challenging for some.
But wait...
I’m thinking a green new dill solar electric Hi-Speed ZipLine and Trolley system, totally anchored and impervious to theft (except for copper motor windings). This pollution free transportation system can be tied to many locations thru-out the lakefront and beyond. Big money maker and opportunities, jobs and benefits are endless !!!
By the way, how many Segways does the City still have and use?
The local dope dealers will miss them, it provided efficient transportation from block to block.
10/15/2019 04:58:00 AM
Haven't you heard? Dope dealers are all closing shop. We have a new Boss in town, better not cross his biz. Goes by the name of Biggy JB and he is size-up, dawg.
I live in one of the pilot areas on the NW side, and look forward to few months where I don’t have to drag scooters out of the middle of the sidewalk. I thought the city was dedicated to promoting public transit and also fighting obesity? I guess not if there’s some sweet privatized money involved.
Can’t wait to ride one to and from work hehe
The city will pay this company to keep taking the losses. Bet on it.
From a Time article. "Korus, the analyst, thinks that shared scooter companies in particular are in trouble as subsidies come to an end. By his math, it costs scooter companies like Bird $2.55 per mile to rent dockless scooters to customers. Before they raised their prices, these companies were generating just $2.43 in revenue per mile". They raised their prices a lot and found less people use them. Buying your own scooter only costs about 400 bucks for those that must have one, so why rent. "Shared mobility companies may work in the future — if they get significant subsidies, says Susan Shaheen, a transportation professor at the University of California, Berkeley." Something the corrupt commies in dem cities would surely jump to support.
Also Uber has pulled their electric bikes out of five markets this year, including San Diego, Dallas and Atlanta. They will launch scooters in San Francisco soon after receiving government approval in September. Of course these riders in SF will have to do their best to avoid the homeless and the needles and muck all over their sidewalks and streets.
Rumor has it, all police and fire dept member's will ride these scooter's 2 and from job's.
These scooters are a fuck'n joke !!!!
Just in time for winter, imagine that. Next spring they will roll out the new scooter program. SCOOTER 2.0
Awww, but if the scooters get cancelled, these poor bottom feeders will starve!
https://levinsonstefani.com/chicagos-early-e-scooters-issues/
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These lunatics hate the program and love the program...
https://chi.streetsblog.org/2019/10/14/as-scooter-pilot-ends-active-trans-report-calls-for-expanding-it-with-strings-attached/
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Scooter idiocy - pictures, etc...
https://twitter.com/ChicagoFails
Please lagroot keep the program my friend needs a liver.
Fuck the scooter program. Whose making the money on this shit?
How much revenue does the city get from this scooter program?
I thought Scooter Program was a nickname for retirement and getting the heck out of Dodge?
FYI just looked up msrp of Porsche Taycan, their electric car. Starts at $150,000 for the base model. WTF !! I'll stick with gasoline thank you
And of course the "Mobility Justice" folks have to have their say with regard to scooters. You see things ain't been fair. “Sincere, equitable, and impactful engagement is done in full partnership with community-based organizations. Scooter systems will not ride in front of community organizers, instead they will ride behind us, as we lead the work of generating neighborhood demand for increased mobility, ensuring a fair and just distribution of mobility resources.” SOS from the usual suspects. Read their Racial Equity of Principle, but not on a full stomach please.
https://chi.streetsblog.org/2019/10/15/black-advocates-call-for-expanding-chicagos-scooter-program-with-a-focus-on-equity/
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59e46956bff2000caf3dcfa9/t/5d57f709b14a65000188b623/1566045962459/8.13.19+DRAFT+-+The+Equiticity+Racial+Equity+Statement+of+Principle+PDF.pdf
Scooters are the least of the enviro-scams used to fleece taxpayers. Windmills are anither net loser as it takes more energy than they produce to: make, transport, maintain and decommission.
More than 2 million tonnes of composite materials were used to build 13 000 wind turbines across the EU.
No less than 12 000 wind turbines will be decommissioned in the next five years. This means around 5000 wind turbine blades will need to be recycled by 2020, with at least another 10 000 blades ready for dismantling in 2030. These blades have an average life cycle of 20 years.
Obama and Soros pushed a bigger enviro-scam. (Same weasels that gave us Jussie Smollet and Kim Foxx.)
Currently the global and U.S. elite are pushing their climate change/green agenda with the threat of a global catastrophe. With this as their launching pad they have set in motion hundreds of laws and regulations, both domestically and through the U.N. designed to drive the world toward some form of “global governance” all while making themselves richer and more powerful in the process.
With this as a back drop, let’s talk about the latest scam brought to you by: the President, Goldman Sachs, Van Jones, Al Gore, George Soros and Franklin Raines just to name a few. Without further delay, let me introduce you to – The Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX).
With this as a back drop, let’s talk about the latest scam brought to you by: the President, Goldman Sachs, Van Jones, Al Gore, George Soros and Franklin Raines just to name a few. Without further delay, let me introduce you to – The Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX).
The Green New deal is not about climate change, it is about controlling the means of production and thereby controlling you!
Don't get rid of all of them, there's a bust out Sgt. in the marine unit who could use one because he doesn't have a vehicle of his own and he has a habit of beating the piss out of , or damaging any department vehicle he gets a hold of ! Never mind , this ass would destroy the scooters also !
What is the cities cut from the scooter program??????
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