Arlington, Virginia, USA is still in a pilot of dockless eScooters with several who have them around. They paid a fee to be considered and number limited with payment. Competing companies. Some parking like spaces (paint spray on pavement) of dockless near MetroRail stations recently announced.Not sure the rest of the DC area jurisdictions, but Arlington claims to be forward thinking. Arlington adopted bikeshare before much larger Fairfax County ~26? square miles, vs ~700 or so,...). I've seen several other companies wandering thru towards DC and Maryland going towards Baltimore. University of Maryland iirc, incorporated towns/cities, etc. Not sure how one joins many and gets across town with so many competing, but Monopoly abuse seemed bad too...I was a member of predicessor bikeshares when DC had one pilot when offered to lower income, but so on & off it was very frustrating bordering upon cruel... CaBi now has some eBikes, but I've not tried them, as membership mysteriously disappeared again...WABA did a comparison of bikeshares a while back, time, cost, process to checkout / race type thing.Sorry no links handy.Like Paris, I think some are ready to chuck the shares & dockless scooters in the river or something...
The eScooters I've seen many places where i would not want them, not allowed and some destroyed/broken and in the way/blocking streets and sidewalks. Wearing helmets and sticking to rules of where they are allowed (onstreet with cars, Not in parks, rules/laws largely ignored like skateboards) as they are being adopted seems to be one of the purpose(s) of the pilot besides a runoff among competing vendors, imnsho...Full disclosure: I bought a cheap off brand small folding eBike about a year ago, using disabled status pushing the limits of access and acceptability as a wheel chair equivalent, informally. I blogged about it, and CaBi crap, if you call it writing, more like public complaining on NoVAPeers.pbworks.comI've seen articles (likely from here?) of mountains of stored and excess bikeshares in China? and one local Coop (VeloCity with at least one person posting on here, Ron?) sold off some that withdrew from the DC market, ofo iirc./EndBrainDump
On Tue, Jan 8, 2019, 3:07 PM Reno Bike Project <renobikeproject@gmail.com wrote:____________________________________Hi Jim,Good timing—Reno, Nevada City Council is meeting tomorrow and likely approving a franchise renewal with Lime, so I have been able to grab the original, temporary agreement, staff report, and proposed continuing agreement for you to dig into as you please. Reno got ahead of the curve, did an RFP from various bikeshare companies, and has passed regulations that only allowed Lime access to the public right-of-way. The original franchise agreement was made between Lime & 5 partners including the neighboring city of Sparks, Washoe County (which both cities are part of), Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, and the University of Nevada, Reno. Just a bit of background there. I'm not intimately familiar with the program's workings, but if your group has questions, I'm happy to do my best to answer them, or direct you to someone who can.Genevieve, Reno Bike ProjectOn Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 11:22 PM Jim D. Mayerstein <jdmayerstein@gmail.com> wrote:____________________________________Hi all! This is a little off-topic from bike collectives stuff but still in the bike spectrum of things, so here's what's up:Mexico City just installed the first technical board for bike share and dockless transportation systems infrastructure and operations management and I'm super stoked to be part of it. Right now we're trying to gather information from other systems around the world on what their regulations are specifically with the dockless bikes and scooters operators. Some of the questions we're trying to find answers for are:
- What are the requirements for companies that offer these services to operate in your city?
- Do companies have to pay some sort of right to operate in the city? If so, how much is it and how often do you do contract renewal?
- Which are the penalties for companies who don't stick to the rules?
- Do companies have to install infrastructure for their bikes? Given they are dockless, some sort of designated spaces or areas?
- Do companies have to contribute to the bike infrastructure maintenance?
If you or anyone you know have some info or is willing to chat at some point, let me know!Thanks everyone!Much love,-Jim Mayerstein
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