E-scooters are now available for rent in Saskatoon.
The City announced on Wednesday it has agreed to let Bird Canada and Neuron supply about 500 e-scooters for shared rentals. Personal e-scooters are still not allowed, according to a City of Saskatoon news release.
“We believe this shared e-scooter pilot will provide benefits to our community, and we look forward to seeing it in action,” Jay Magus, Director of Transportation, said in the release.
And how it’s going.
Trip north, in Edmonton.
The scooters are everywhere and in high use. They look fun.
I’ve learned to slow down and check 16 ways at every intersection.
Bunch of dumb a&&ses, anyone with a brain would have seen the end result of this. Hell, southpark was mocking this years ago.
Can’t believe how stupid and out of touch our politicians are, no – that’s not true – I believe it.
Wherever these things are let loose they always wind up feral, causing damages, and injuring people.
Most of the time only the commie scooters are legal, private ones illegal – yah, like this isn’t some commie wet dream.
Tents, scooters, and drugs – the NDP city of the future (nearly present).
And they work so well in winter in a city that doesn’t plow at all (corduroy ice roads) (caveat: I used to live there). And remember yesterday’s headline (for a city of about 200,000) which will add costs onto every single taxpayer of about $3,000 per year (man, woman, and child) – mentioned in this very blog;
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/06/09/more-bike-lanes/
Stupid, thy name is Saskatoon.
Beautiful city, very NDP!
In Victoria, it was the Blue Bikes. Bikes painted blue from anyone to use. Within weeks all were stolen and many ended up in the harbour. Fast forward a couple of decades and someone else is suggesting free bikes for downtown. They never learn from their mistakes, which is probably why they hate history.
How’s about those feral scooters end up en masse, swimming in the nearest river?
When the battery dies “they” can’t find them. Saw some on the Bow riverbank, kinda like transient shelters, straight outta Lynnwod.
How do they permit a company to rent these, and keep individual private owners from doing the same?
SImilar units are abandoned over much of Calgary, I’ve never seen one sitting on a roadway though, I’m quite sure folks would simply drive over them and keep going.
Maybe they sell plates like for taxis.
It’s scooter socialism. No personal scooters allowed. All scooters must be shared. And funny enough, riding without a helmet is illegal, yet most of the riders in the video have no helmets.
One person here in Red Deer said the insurance didn’t cover for a accident with their car cause the rider was underage of 18. IDK how true or not but one of those could easily cause a few thousand in damage.
Like all public transportation, the scooters and the users inconvenience everybody else.
While I never used one and don’t plan to, thinking it is a good way to get around downtown and its periphery of Calgary rather efficiently.
Things may seem to be abandoned, though they are waiting for the next ride.
The companies are doing well, otherwise, as you can imagine, they would not be doing it.
No other people’s money involved.
They call it free enterprise.
How usable are those things in December?
Those fugly things are scattered all around Lethbridge in the summer months. A damned eyesore & frequently there are idiots driving them who are such bad drivers they can’t get a license for a car.
The drunks love them in my town. No breathalyzer ignition lock.
“Personal e-scooters are still not allowed…”
Under what pretext, I wonder?
Wonder how such a by-law holds up constitutionally?
“not allowed” Do as you’re told serf.
The city folk vote for this, at all levels.
These are great for getting around downtown.
These make great target practice downtown.
I saw these all over cities in Europe. The problem is when they’re owned collectively, no one cares and a whole bureaucracy is devoted to daily collection, maintenance and charging.
I also noticed workers dredging them out of rivers and canals, much like our issue with shopping carts. The companies can’t make money by simply selling them to individuals, they need municipal governments buying them by the hundreds. I imagine the attrition and replacement costs are pretty darn high.
A fad that will go away. Had them here on the Essex sunshine coast a couple of years ago then they disappeared. Quite a few private ones running around though and although they are currently illegal (UK gov is reviewing the status at the moment), plod doesn’t seem to care too much*.
* Apart from chasing two teenagers in Cardiff last month.