Lime Scooter Share

[danbrotherston]

So I used the Lime scooters today, so I wrote up my thoughts on the experience, the pilot, and scooters in general.

https://kissingbridgetrail.blogspot.com/...oters.html

Highlights:

* The pilot is a joke, no attempt to enforce it whatsoever.
* The scooters are slow, crawling up hills, and uncomfortable, really harsh ride, curb cuts with a 1 inch lip are really a problem.
* The app is terrible, this surprised me.
* It's a profit driven company, and it shows.
* Expensive...more than I expected.
* I hope I'm wrong, but I fear this will impact DropBike's pilot.

The good?

They're a reasonably interesting addition to the transportation system. While capacity is a problem I think they have the potential to substantially expand the reasonable last mile range of transit from 500 meters walking to closer to 2 km. That's pretty much the only trips they're good for.