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I‘m not a fan of the government running businesses but in the case of rental eScooters: Why not let public transit have the single license to operate a rental
by woodpanel 3y ago
I‘m not a fan of the government running businesses but in the case of rental eScooters:
Why not let public transit have the single license to operate a rental eScooter service or at least assign that single license to one private operator (as a public private partnership)?
On the one hand the e-scooter network could (should) have a way larger service area, could be more tightly, better integrated into public infrastructure and get utilized by a way larger customer base.
On the other hand it could alleviate some deadlocked budget discussions about public transport (eg. more bicycle garages vs. a new subway line) by providing an alternative.
PS: And then rinse and repeat for bike- and carsharing.
- smileysteve 3y agoTo bicker, Many cities spent millions of dollars on the city sponsored bikes from a period from 2005-2015... and 2015 was the first time ebikes + scooters became convenient and abundant enough to establish a volume of users. One could conclude that the cities provided a very costly startup beta, that the for profit entities were actually able to adopt. From $100s dollars per user activation to $1.