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My small European city of 500k people had at least 9 (!) scooter brands last summer: Bird, Tier, Lime, Voi, Bolt, Zeus, Dott, Ryde, Surf. An article I found say
by atombender 4y ago
My small European city of 500k people had at least 9 (!) scooter brands last summer: Bird, Tier, Lime, Voi, Bolt, Zeus, Dott, Ryde, Surf. An article I found says there were actually 12 (!).
As a result, last fall, there were a total of about 25,000 scooters out clogging the streets, enough that the city administration decided to establish a city-wide limit of 8,000 scooters. This spring, the city kicked out all but three services: Voi, Tier, and Bolt.
As a consumer, I like scooters a lot, but market fragmentation was frustrating (one app for every service), and these days you can rarely even find a scooter when you need one. I ended up going back to using my bike.