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This reminds me of how SF killed the electric scooter business. This is why we can't have nice things. America wants you to own a car, and drive it.
by baby 6y ago
This reminds me of how SF killed the electric scooter business. This is why we can't have nice things. America wants you to own a car, and drive it.
- temp667 6y agoWhich is nuts - they were so popular and efficient. Was it the taxi companies who wanted them gone or uber? Uber I'm sure did a lot better business once you couldn't grab a scooter.
- duckfang 6y agoI'm glad to see most Limes and Birds gone. More often than not, they ended up in roads, across sidewalks blocking access, thrown in parking spots, in lakes rivers and other deep-enough bodies of water, thrown off parking structures, and more. And in my city, both Bird and Lime came in the city on flatbed trucks between 4-5AM and offloaded them en masse. Where I come from, that's abandoning trash. Had they work with the city, this rollout couold have gone loads smoother and not start by trashing the public commons... But in reality, thats what Silly-con valley companies do - they exfiltrate good will and good things like public commons and take it for themselves, all the while screaming that they're being wronged when people take, disassemble, throw in trash their littered goods.
- baby 6y agoEvery time I read a comment like this, that seems to ignore the amount of space, noise, and danger cars bring to a city, I just can’t believe it was written in right faith.
- duckfang 6y agoWhy should a private company be able to: 1. Store private goods permanently on the public commons? 2. Hinder the use of the public commons for long-term? 3. Treat the public commons as a refuse-dump? 4. Privatize the gains while socialize the losses? Do we need something better in terms of overall transport? Of course we do. But dumping them off a flatbed truck at 4AM and YOLO'ing is not how you do it either. But it is how you get myself and people like me loading them into dumpsters to be hauled away.
- alach11 6y agoThe amount of space in the "public commons" allocated to free car parking dwarfs the space taken up by these scooters. What if instead of banning a new transportation paradigm, the city had decided to work with the companies to convert 1/4 of the public parking spaces to scooter storage areas?
- temp667 6y agoThis is so obvious especially if you also bike. Cars are dangerous, polluting (breathing inside a tunnel makes that obvious) and take up ridiculous space for 1 person and don't get shared / re-used!
- renewiltord 6y agoHad they worked with the city, they would be where Chris Sacca's free internet for SF would be: non-existent.
- temp667 6y agoMost of the issues with Bird and Lime were caused by the anti-scooter groups. Seriously, your office worker is not throwing them off into bodies of water and parking structures. Another solution would be to arrest and prosecute these anti-social types trashing things. Just go all out against them. I routinely saw Limes and Birds being knocked over en masse by these idiots. It's why we can't have nice things.
- josu 6y agoIt's just as bad in Madrid where the public transportation is actually OK, and not everybody owns a car.
- danlugo92 6y agoI hate driving.
- InvertedRhodium 6y agoIn NZ we limited the numbers that can be on the street at any one time and they're fine - just another part of the landscape now, people have even got over the "fun" of throwing them in bodies of water.