San Francisco has no idea what to do about ‘goofball’ e-scooters, email records show

San Francisco has been scooter-less for months. 

Other cities, meanwhile, have slowly been filling with electric scooters. But earlier this year, San Francisco cracked down on three companies — Bird, Lime, and Spin — that had been renting e-scooters to riders without any go-ahead from the city. After an initial period of letting them ride wild, the city decided the scooters had to be regulated, and a permit process implemented. Until that happens, all scooter-shares were banned. 

That was June. It’s now August. The permitting is taking forever. And San Francisco transit officials seem way over their heads. Read more…

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