Pleasant Hill’s Scooter Program Temporarily Paused Due To Staffing Shortage
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Staffing shortage or crime rise?
Didn’t something like this get tried locally with bicycles… Lime Bikes I think it was.
Bikes ended up all over the place… Lime Litter I think it was called.
Eventually was discontinued.
my guess is the workers refused to go into homeless camps under the freeways to recover them…
It is the only place I’ve seen the scooters…
Part of the problem is that you have to be 18 or older to rent one and you are not allowed to use Bird scooters on sidewalks nor on bike trails. You can only used them on streets. As very few streets in Pleasant Hill have bike lanes you are taking a considerable risk. Most, if not all, riders of a rental scooter will be novices at using them.
iirc you can actually ride a bike on sidewalks in Lafayette, PH and Concord when I looked it up. It’s up to the city if it’s allowed or not. Nothing wrong with bikes on sidewalks as long as they go appropriate speed for conditions and visibility and always give way to pedestrians. Scooters would presumably be legal too.
Like Lime bikes, they will just go away.
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Good riddance.
We can’t have nice things because of criminals and low class people with no respect. Rental bikes/scooters keep people out of cars and trucks and are excellent for the environment, provided they aren’t trashed, abused, set on fire, thrown into lakes, etc.. Each car taken off the road for casual trips is a win – more parking spots open, less pollution, less traffic congestion, less opportunity for thieves to break into your car or steal its catalytic converter, and the exercise gained by pedaling a bike is a plus. Do you need a 2,500lb to 6,000lb vehicle to go 2 miles for milk on a sunny day? Probably not. I’m not anti car, I love my cars.
I bet this kind of thing does well in Northern Europe, where there is much less crime and more community cohesion.
When I visited Norway a few years back, Oslo had rental bikes available. They weren’t strewn everywhere like Lime Bike or this scooter thing. They were available in certain locations, locked up to a retaining structure, and you could unlock them when you paid the rental. I didn’t check, but assume you got at least some of that money back when you returned the bike to one of the many rental centers.
Norway also has the benefit of being full of Norwegians, instead of self centered Californians, begging leaches, and shiftless tweakers. Everyone always wants the nice socialism of Scandinavia, but no one wants to do anything to create the social capital and individual decency that make it possible there.
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