And we wonder why we don’t have reliable transportation alternatives to the automobile in the US, when city transportation departments stereotype and stigmatize any ‘new’ form of mobility:https://twitter.com/pbotinfo/status/1022504328521703424 …
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Replying to @michalnaka @thijsniks
You do know their business model is basically based on making the city to clean up their mess right? It's easy to understand why cities are getting pissy.
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Replying to @michalnaka @thijsniks
If you do the math, the business model is a function of the cost of a scooter, dumping it on the street, and never maintaining it themselves directly
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Do you know how much land cities elect to allocate to free car storage? I think it’s more than reasonable for smaller, more efficient and more environmentally friendly methods to ask for 1/10th the treatment cars are given.
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Replying to @CassiusDeHaight @jones_cassius and
It's more than reasonable to do that _constructively with the city_ but the opposite is what happens; these companies show up and spam the city in the hope they'll force the regulation, not the other way around.
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I agree that the Bird approach in Santa Monica and a few other locals (not just Bird) was not great and reflects poorly on the market as a whole. But in this case it looks like PBOT issued permits no?pic.twitter.com/SXbh8CZkDo
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Replying to @CassiusDeHaight @jones_cassius and
Yup, but afaik the permits don't take into account maintenance plans - just scooter numbers. I'm OK with scooters, but a plan for dealing with them that doesn't fall back on the taxpayer is important.
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So my understanding is the scooter companies pay contractors to charge and redistribute the scooters. I’m not sure what other costs there are? And how those costs stack up to the tremendous negative externalities of omnipresent car use?
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Replying to @CassiusDeHaight @jones_cassius and
I won't discount the problems with cars, but the difference here is that the cars pay a huge amount of tax/fees/registration to be on the road. Should scooters do the same if we replace them?
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Easy fix, if taxation is the problem
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