E-scooters get a lot of hate, but they’re sticking around

It seems like decades ago that scooters first roamed free and wild all over. 

It’s really been about a year — it was just in the beginning of 2018 that e-scooters really started to drop into cities around the U.S. Even though some cities have cracked down on its scooter policies (hello, San Francisco and Santa Monica), the motorized vehicles are still here. In some places, you might even say they’re thriving.

A look back on the past year in scooters gives us a hint of where we’re going: more scooters in more places.

Lime’s end-of-the-year report from this week tells a pretty universal scooter story. People are downloading the apps to rent the devices and then taking a lot of rides. Since Lime launched 18 months ago, it’s reached 9 million app downloads.  Read more…

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