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Another interesting thing to bring up is that the City of Raleigh is rolling out a bike share program (2/3rd of the bikes are motorized e-Bikes so speeds can easily match the scooters) in the next few months in the downtown area.
No helmets are required and you can legally ride on the sidewalk within city limits on a bike if there are no on-street bike facilities. What is the City going to do about this?
Bike share in Charlotte is a hot mess. People abandon them anywhere and everywhere. I live about 8 miles from city center and I encounter bikes abandoned in the middle of sidewalks, on people’s lawns and in parking lots every day. It seems like a good idea, but has become a public nuisance.
Raleigh man wants rider held accountable after Bird scooter crashes into, damages car http://wr.al/1DhEb
So let's see what happens under the new rules. This will be interesting. Bird is saying they won't give up the name of the rider without a subpoena.
They are not being smart. Very short sighted. The correct thing to do would be give up the name, which in turn would send a message that you have to be responsible if you're going to ride their scooters. It would help clean up the problem, but instead, they are choosing to protect irresponsible riders. Effect will be more bad will, and less support.
Before I saw your post, I just assumed it would be easy to catch the person, because all they'd have to do is check the rider logs and ID him. Bird is making a mistake, IMO. (EDIT: Unless they are just doing the suboena thing to CYA. That might make sense, but if they put up any resistance, they are foolish.)
I've been downtown the last two days and only encountered one person using a scooter (I wasn't there for long). That person was staying within the bike lane, although they were not wearing a helmet. The other scooters not in use appeared to be parked responsibly.
Haven’t seen an actual rider in a couple of days, but yesterday did see a “nest” directly blocking the sidewalk beside the Cameron Village Harris Teeter. They were obviously and deliberately deployed there by one of the chargers. Three were positioned between the tree and no parking sign, completely blocking right of way. I find it mind boggling that the scooter companies and their contractors can still get away with that. I know for a fact that numerous people in motorized wheelchairs use that path to get to the store from neighboring Oberlin Village.
Bike share in Charlotte is a hot mess. People abandon them anywhere and everywhere. I live about 8 miles from city center and I encounter bikes abandoned in the middle of sidewalks, on people’s lawns and in parking lots every day. It seems like a good idea, but has become a public nuisance.
If the bikes are strewn all over the places, including peoples' lawns, then that must me a dockless system. We have that in Raleigh as well, centered around NC State. However, the system that the city is putting in place is a docked system that highly penalizes people for not putting them in their proper place. This could include the entire replacement price of the bike itself if the bike is stolen or lost. Those bikes will not be strewn about.
The dockless bikes have the same "littering" issue as the dockless scooters; they can be left anywhere and everywhere by inconsiderate users.
I've been downtown the last two days and only encountered one person using a scooter (I wasn't there for long). That person was staying within the bike lane, although they were not wearing a helmet. The other scooters not in use appeared to be parked responsibly.
I suspect that Winter will have a giant effect on ridership. I suspect that many riders will revert back to Uber and Rline when it's cold.
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