Posted on 10/20/2022 10:05:02 PM PDT by DallasBiff
DALLAS - Rentable scooters and bikes will return to the streets of Dallas soon.
On Wednesday, the city opened up the application process for companies that offer shared dockless vehicles.
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The city has established new parking rules, as well as "No Ride Zones" and "Slow Ride Zones". There will also be limits on the number of units companies can park on each block.
READ MORE: Dallas orders electric rental scooters off the streets
The city ordered rental companies like Uber, Lyft and Bird to cease operations in 2020 due to safety concerns and public complaints.
"We have heard from a number of residents and stakeholders who are excited for the program to return, and with the new rules in place we anticipate addressing previous concerns about the program while promoting multi-modal transportation," said Dallas Department of Transportation Director Ghassan Khankarli.
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Isn't the definition of insanity, is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results.
In Seattle, the homeless keep tossing them in the bay.
Rider feedback is generally positive.
From first hand experience living in Beelin when these started popping up everywhere.
They all ended up in the canals. Not just in Berlin but just about every city in Czechia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, etc. Idiot tourists would buzz through old towne squares and crash in to people or just be super rude on the sidewalks. The locals got fed up with them and just started tossing them in the canals and rivers. The Poles hated them most from what I remember.
They cause so many problems, yet they still approve of them.
If some one wants to spend hard earned money to buy one, no problem.
The scooter company pitches a great sales presentation. No tax dollars at stake, as riders pay $1.80 per minute. The novelty for a tourist area is too much to ignore. Until the problems arise.
Those things are lethal weapons on a sidewalk or pedestrian path.
If people want to ride them in the street - no problem with me.
Of course, in the street, electric scooter and electric bike riders face the ever present risk of instant death or permanent disability.
Allowing those things on sidewalks is just a legal strategy to shift 100% of that risk onto completely innocent pedestrians, who never even see those things coming.
Any politician who allows motorized vehicles on a sidewalk should be convicted of criminal negligence and sent to prison.
About three years ago, I was in Zurich, Switzerland....and that was a complete mess with these E-scooters. At some point, within 50 ft of where I was standing....must have been easily 100 of them just ‘dumped’ on the side of the street.
Stakeholders.
A word I hate.
It’s not insanity when it’s not your money.
Taxpayers’ money...
Pfffft.
There’s more where that came from, isn’t there? 😁
One of the local DFW radio stations was talking about the e-scooters or bikes several years ago. They said there were hundreds of them thrown in the river that runs behind their building. I have a hard time understanding the business model where a company could expect to ever turn a profit with that kind of asset loss.
The companies hired people just to go collect the scooters/bikes and return them to service or to a repair center.
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