Yes, you can get busted for scooting while drunk.
With scooters swooping into more and more cities, it’s no surprise that people are behaving badly on the electric devices. E-scooter rental company Bird celebrated its first anniversary earlier …
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A Lime scooter rider died this morning in Washington, D.C., marking the second fatality this month
Lime, the 18-month-old, San Francisco-based company whose bright green bicycles and scooters now dot cities throughout the U.S., launched a pilot program in Tacoma, Washington, today, but that tiny victory might have felt short-lived. The reason: on opposite side of the country, a Lime rider was killed this morning by an SUV while tooling around Washington […]
View More A Lime scooter rider died this morning in Washington, D.C., marking the second fatality this monthBird hits 10 million scooter rides
Bird just announced 10 million scooter rides since launching about one year ago. If this story sounds familiar to you, it’s probably because Bird competitor Lime earlier today announced it surpassed 11.5 million rides across its shared bikes and scooters. Bird, which launched last September in Santa Monica, Calif., currently operates in 100 cities and […]
View More Bird hits 10 million scooter ridesLime is pissed at San Francisco for denying it an e-scooter permit, claims ‘unlawful bias’
Lime is waging a war against the San Francisco Municipal Transporation Agency (SFMTA), claiming that the organization acted with “unlawful bias” and “sought to punish Lime” when it chose not to award the e-scooter and dockless bike startup a permit to operate in San Francisco last month. Lime has sent an appeal to the SFMTA, requesting an “unbiased […]
View More Lime is pissed at San Francisco for denying it an e-scooter permit, claims ‘unlawful bias’It’s Friday, so here’s a rap video about scooter startup Bird
Listen, if you’re the kind of person who wants to watch a rap video about scooters, here’s a rap video about scooters. Don’t let me stop you. Also, if you make it to the end, you might as well stick around for the credits. For one thing, you’ll learn that it was directed by Andrew […]
View More It’s Friday, so here’s a rap video about scooter startup BirdSan Francisco and Santa Monica finally decide which e-scooter companies can roll through
Bring on the scooters.
After months of scooter-less streets in San Francisco, city transportation officials finally broke their silence Thursday to announce which electric scooter companies would be allowed to rent out the battery-powered vehicles.
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Skip and Scoot are the only companies awarded scooter permits in SF
The great San Francisco scooter decision has been made. And Skip and Scoot have claimed the prize. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) issued one-year permits to Skip and Scoot on Thursday, a decision that ends months of waiting for 12 companies that applied to operate within the city. JUMP, which Uber acquired in April, as well as Lyft, Skip, […]
View More Skip and Scoot are the only companies awarded scooter permits in SFSanta Monica will allow Lime, Bird, Lyft and JUMP to operate e-scooters
The city of Santa Monica has officially awarded Bird, Lime, Lyft and JUMP Bikes, which Uber acquired in April, permits to operate both electric scooters and/or bikes in the city as part of its 16-month pilot program beginning September 17. The city will allow Bird and Lime to each manage 750 scooters. Lyft and JUMP were granted permission […]
View More Santa Monica will allow Lime, Bird, Lyft and JUMP to operate e-scootersSF and Santa Monica expected to award official permits to scooter companies today
The day has arrived. After more than two months of waiting, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) is poised to determine which of 12 companies will successfully procure one of the city’s five permits.
View More SF and Santa Monica expected to award official permits to scooter companies todayThis Twitter thread about a very good bird will warm your cold soul
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Who doesn’t love a good man-befriends-animal story?
This one about Henry the Blue Jay will tug at your heartstrings.
Posted to Twitter by planetary astronomer Alex Parker, the story of the bird’s transformation from scruffy little bird to grasshopper-catching virtuoso, is an interspecies friendship story for the ages.
Hello Twitter. Today I would like to tell you about Henrypic.twitter.com/3yCFuFrfBD
— Alex Parker (@Alex_Parker) August 27, 2018
Henry came to Parker’s garden in desperate need of food and water, looking “scruffy.” Read more…
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View More This Twitter thread about a very good bird will warm your cold soulBird flies through someone’s window, poops on their laptop, then just croaks
It’s a common superstition that bad things come in threes. There’s no scientific evidence that suggests this is true, but one Redditor’s story may make a believer out of you.
Redditor u/JaMollyAdams shared a their very unfortunate run in with a bird …
Bird and Lime are protesting Santa Monica’s electric scooter recommendations
Lime and Bird are protesting recommendations in Santa Monica, Calif. that would prevent the electric scooter companies from operating in the Southern California city. We first saw the news over on Curbed LA, which reported both Lime and Bird are temporarily halting their services in Santa Monica. Last week, Santa Monica’s shared mobility device selection committee […]
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