Gotta give credit for them pushing ahead no matter what the NIMBYs say. I live in the same place as Todd Gloria and personally thank him all the time for making the city more bikable.
Everyone who is on an e-scooter is one more person who chose not to bring a 2 ton metal box with them. That is admirable- very considerate not to inflict noise, danger and asthma on everyone when you travel.
That's if they replace car travel. In practice most e-scooter rides replace public transportation rides, at least in European cities and other countries (not in the US of course).
@@udishomer5852 Here in the UK they seem to be used for similar journeys to bikes and many people will use cars just to go round to the shops, many of the journeys are made by those too lazy, or physically unable to cycle and on routes not well served by buses and since our buses are expensive and awkward to use for many journeys, these journeys probably are replacing car journeys in many cases. Dungeons with a free bus pass will use the bus, I use my bike because it is cheap to maintain, scooters offer an alternative to people who won't pay for or wait for a bus or don't wish to pedal up all the hills in Scotland. Definitely prefer them to cars, the similar speed to a bike makes them easy to integrate- mobility scooters could use bike paths too and any number of micro-mobility vehicles that go 20 or less. Many car journeys can be replaced and stealing shares from public transport isn't inherently bad, just run smaller buses, at least a scooter is reasonably efficient for one passenger. A lot better than a big gas guzzling cage!
@@marquiseh5128 Scooters aren't a bad option even if replacing public transport, there's still health & fitness benefits to them, and they keep people on the streets creating a vibrant city community. Whereas particularly metro systems have a tendency to suck people underground out of touch with the businesses & communities that live in those places.
@@udishomer5852Taking a crowded bus, tram or metro in the city every day can be a miserable experience. Those people deserve a dignified way of getting around outside in the fresh air as well.
i’m a recent e-scooter convert. i was skeptical because yeah, they do get left in bad places on sidewalks, but the benefit they provide is immense. my city’s very very limited bikeshare network is not really suited to the kind of neighborhood-level trips i make, and not having to find a dock at the beginning and end of my trips is ideal. it’s eliminated a ton of car trips for me, especially to places like my gym or my favorite bar that are over 20 minutes on foot. it’s so convenient in fact that i recently sold my bike and bought my own e-scooter off my coworker. maybe that’s insane, but i’m not someone who likes working up a sweat while running my errands.
I've not been much of a bike rider but was riding a lot of scooter rentals through a work benefit and I feel like it's far more suited to a person like me that is not always wearing bike appropriate clothes and also doesn't want to deal with taking care of a vehicle after the ride ends. We just need more options.
All this time, I had no idea I was participating in Spanish culture by taking evening walks through the city with my dog after work and before dinner 😂 Me encantan mis paseos nocturnos! Another great video! I'm a shared scooter user myself. They're great when you want to get somewhere with no physical exertion and also don't want to leave your bike locked up somewhere unattended for hours. For example, I rode one downtown recently to get to a concert. It was a more formal concert so I had a suit on and didn't necessarily want to bike, but renting a scooter was the perfect solution. My friends who I was meeting commuted an hour into the city to get to the show and it took longer for them to get from the edge of downtown to a parking garage and then walk over to the venue than it did for me to scoot down from my apartment (a 1.5 mile scooter trip for reference). I actually made it back home after the concert before they even got out of downtown and then they had another 45 to 50 minute drive after that once they got out 😂 P.S. The change of scenery from Las Vegas to Valencia is a welcome one. I'm sure even more so for you haha
Anything that lets people transport themselves round cities without taking a huge metal box with them is good in my book. I get the e scooters aren’t everyone’s cup of tea but it’s inevitable that some people won’t want to cycle but are willing to scoot. We need as many non-car transport choices as possible.
As long as the scooter users safety conscious are which they are not.. they are ALWAYS in a rush and expect pedestrians to get out of THEIR way... and there is no safety regulation.. the people that use a scooter are displaced drivers.. drivers that probably lost their license and doing the same reckless behavior they did in a car, on the sidewalk. I grew up in NYC and never learned how to drive; hence I walk those scooters make it dangerous to be an individual walking; the scooter users are entitled, high, drunk, impatient, irresponsible and indifferent ... just like a lot of the bicyclists that are injuring and killing people on the sidewalks in NYC and other major cities (look it up - no one wants to admit that bicycles could ever be bad)... I am all for alternative transport in its' lane and NOT on the sidelwalks where the blind, the toddler, the disabled, the feeble are trying to go about THEIR life ... the lack of safety for pedestrians regarding scooters on sidewalks is shocking; it is clear cities or the scooter providers could care less that they are facilitating terrorizing and assault on pedestrians. Cities make sure people pay parking tickets though!
@@andrejka_talking_out_loud I mean... no they aren't killing people. But yes, we want larger side walks and dedicated lanes for scooters and bicycles. We aren't your enemy, it's the car drivers who refuse to give up an inch of space for alternate forms of transport who are your enemy.
As a former New Yorker that visits NYC frequently, I hit like before even watching just because this is a topic that came to my mind last week. Thanks!
Hearing the natural conditions for a bike friendly city you listed at the beginning of the video, it makes me really sad that my city didn’t take that opportunity.
@@CityNerd If you're looking for a US deep-dive, Somerville, MA and Cambridge, MA have landscapes that have radically changed for the bike-friendly better since 2018.
@@lifeinhd4053 im also from Texas (Fort Worth), Austin and Fort Worth are both great cities with great climate and natural landscape, and it’s sad that cities in Texas haven’t taken their chance
Video idea: the potential of car free cities on islands. Here in Germany we have a few islands (like Langeoog) that do not allow cars (apart from emergency vehicles of cause). While they do not have a big population they are very touristy. Just from looking around on google maps I feel like there are a lot of cities on islands that could go car free without much work on infrastrukture. While I have never been there, Nassau seems like a good example. The island is small enough to be accessible by bike and maybe busses. And while it would be a risk for tourism, it could also attract people. The biggest advantage of islands is, that litterally everyone going there takes public transport, or at least private transportation that is not cars.
Mackinac island USA is a car free touristy city that is in my state.and I went there many times and it’s nice. It has a highway meant only for bicycles and horses making it the only car free highway in USA
@@ThreeRunHomer A number of people I see driving on Nantucket with large SUVs is horrible. I rented a bicycle and got everywhere on bicycle there’s some bicycle paths that I really Beautiful and peaceful and away from cars but there’s one really long bike path on that parallels a car road that you just hear the car noise I heard the locals on Nantucket were trying to lobby to limit cars that the tourists take, but they didn’t get it past. There’s way too many cars with the tourist to make it so peaceful. Nantucket already has a bus service at least during the tourist season that stops off at many places so it would be possible to have less cars and then it would be a much peaceful vacation in Ireland.
I have an E-scooter that I ride a couple miles to work with (in Scottsdale, AZ) and while I love using it, the public scooters are the worst. They're littered all over since almost no one parks them where they should go, they're always blocking ramps, sidewalks, etc. It also sucks since drivers hate any shape or form of pedestrians here so I have to be extremely careful just on my short rides to work.
At work and home you have a good place to keep your scooter. what if you go somewhere else with it and need to lock it up somewhere. will it be there when you get back?
@@kennj321 I sometimes take it to nearby parks to hike and lock it up at the bike racks. But I almost never go anywhere really populated with it because of that concern. These things really could be a great alternative for short commuters but there's still too much of a stigma towards them (rightfully so), not enough smooth bike lanes to ride on (they're bumpy rides often), and they still don't have good ways to lock them up more securely (I have to haphazardly wrap my lock around it like crazy).
Shoddy e-bikes and scooters have a habit of catching fire. I like that public e-bikes are purchased and maintained by competent people. And they are always outside.
@@kennj321 A bike lock works just fine with a scooter and bike rack. Untethered scooters, though... Arizona State's police department just reported a rash of scooter thefts on and around campus today.
As a bike commuter in San Diego.... 😭😭😭😭 Also, e-scooters are insanely fun and yes while I did break my ankle riding one it was user error actually, not poor road conditions.
That alien-ship looking building is actually a Valencia Opera facility with concert halls and a network of underground rehearsal spaces (Boston's Berklee college of music also occupies some of the space). It's an amazing space that had some corruption issues during the construction process in the 2000's IIRC
Would love a video about the affects of roundabouts for pedestrians. Especially, looking at Carmel IN. My experience growing up there was that it was great for car traffic but not much better walking. Also it's annoying how at first people bitch about them, not know how to use them, then finally figure them out and love them.
Personal e-scooters are one thing. Rental ones are an absolute scourge. Here in Oulu, Finland (famous for its winter biking), we had a city-wide bike rental scheme for one summer, right before Covid. The bikes had to be returned to designated stations, or it cost you 80€. Never saw one abandoned. It was great. Even though I have my own bike, I rented these often - they meant that I didn't have to commit to a 40-minute bike ride to work, but could ride into town and get a bus from there - or just take another bike when I felt ready. The health benefits were noticeable within weeks. After Covid, we got e-scooters. Five different companies! These things just get abandoned wherever, whenever, however - on the bike path, driven into bushes, you name it. I watched two teens just jump off one at full speed and walk away, not caring where it ended up. In Helsinki I've seen a dozen of them piled up in a heap because the renters couldn't be arsed to deal with two low stairs. Also in Helsinki, the main hospital reckoned they were having to put an extra emergency doctor on every Friday and Saturday night shift because of them. The city threatened to ban them altogether unless the companies agreed to reduce maximum speeds and some total blackout periods - which does nothing to solve the abandonment problem. The few measures that the companies do employ are utterly ineffective. Any model that does not account for the existence of assholes, or knowingly outsources the cost of assholes onto society at large, has no business existing. If you let people leave these things anywhere, they will leave them everywhere. Rewarding people with free credit for returning the scooters to a designated area does very little, because the asshole doesn't think that far ahead. All the asshole understands is pain. When your 2€ ride ends up costing 82€ because you were an asshole, you either learn or run out of cash - eventually. I used to think that, when these things were discarded like trash, it was our civic duty to heave them into the nearest dumpster. But the only way this gets fixed is for us to throw these damned contraptions into the road. Nothing will be done until it affects car drivers.
OMG! You are here in Valencia! Let's have a drink if you have time! You just filmed where I walk my dog every day. I own an electric scooter since 4 years ago and I also do bike often around the city with the city bikes (they are heavy though). You got everything right in your video. Even the weird pricing of the city bikes. You can rent the bikes on an app as a tourist, unlike other cities. I hope that you have a good time in Valencia!
This is an interesting topic. I am fully on board with quality public transportation so I don't have to drive my own car as much. Save money on gas and maintenance as well as help the environment. I moved to Denver, which has a good rail system. I drive my car to the parking lot of a railstop when I need to go into town, and with me I bring an e-scooter I bought to commute around downtown Denver. I love my scooter. Saves me so much time and money from having to drive everywhere
I’m also in the Denver area and have put hundreds of miles on my e-scooter. Love that I can walk it onto the commuter rail cars with me. Most shops and restaurants let me store it inside while shopping/dining as well.
@@Osiris3657 Agreed! I actually have a Commuter Eco Pass through my work that I can use to ride all trains and buses for free as a benefit, but the singe ride or day pass tickets in Denver are higher than most cities I've visited. Phoenix I got a day pass across the whole Metro system for $4!
Ah, Valencia--the... Chicago? of Spain...? Ok, probably not. The dry delivery and moments like your 8:36 "I lied" is exactly why we all show up on Wednesdays for refreshing urbanist content. Still holding out hope for "CityNerd's shameless European urbanism ASMR" 2nd channel, by the way.
How very dare they, you've got a marvellous speaking voice! :) Isn't Valencia wonderful - my parents have retired nearby and I love the city! Tempted to move over there myself.
EScooters are great! I enjoy riding mine because it’s easier to hop on a bus or train with it, than it is with a bike. That said, the problem with the public scooters being scattered all over the place is real. Not sure how to fix that.
Anecdotally, I live next to a light rail station in Seattle, so we're the start/end point of lots of dockless scooters and bikes. People are getting _better_ about polite parking, but its a sloooow improvement.
Cities with really strict regulations are doing a better job of containing the chaos, but it often comes at cost of the companies being able to operate in them at all (usually at a huge loss). Not sure how to balance that currently.
Maybe they could fix that with the public scooter company requiring a deposit and you only receive it back if you put the scooter into the right dock and log it in.
I do like the E-scooters; I used to use them a lot when I worked in downtown Cleveland. It was a lot easier to pick one up and ride it to somewhere else downtown than to move my car and have to pay extra for parking. Occasionally I will see a scooter that isn't parked in an ideal location, but overall I don't think there as much of a nuisance here as they are in other places.
Great video. Hope you will someday visit Prague and do a video about it, preferably in the summer if you like Spain. Its not as great as spanish cities, because it was under soviet rule for 50 years. But still a great walkable city with very good public transit. I mean 10 minute interval is seen as very bad, 20 minute is almost unusable and 30 minutes is only for the night trams. Compare this to Memphis where 30 minutes is express 🙂with infrastructure for bikes we still have a long way to go, because we lack good roads even for cars somewhere and it is a really hilly city
I visited Brussels last years and I couldn’t believe the amount of E-scooters available for rent. They were literally, everywhere - almost too much to be honest. Perhaps worth a visit there too!
eScooters seem to share most of the benefits of bikes, and really, I suppose they're even smaller and even more maneuverable so they demand even less precious urban space. They also work well on existing bike infrastructure. So on a societal level, they mostly seem like a solid choice? On an individual level, there seem to be some greater safety concerns, perhaps somewhat compensated-for by safety equipment and/or riding a scooter with larger wheels. They also seem to have less utility since you can only really carry what you can wear on your back.
Never change your delivery! It’s perfect. Love the dry witty sense of humor. That, paired with the well researched content keeps me eagerly awaiting new episodes.
Well, I do love your camera delivery, because, on one hand, your topics are pretty much always interesting. On the other hand, if I want to take a nap, I'll put up the less interesting (to me) topics. It's perfect, keep up the good work! :)
I don't think I'd like to see CityNerd become a typical youtuber with off the wall energy, crazy video editing, and a shocked face in every thumbnail pic... 😅
So awesome that you went! I'm glad you're enjoying the city, I lived there in 2014 so I had no idea how many new upgrades they have made since then. This video was a delight for many many reasons! My nostalgia is overflowing! If you're feeling homesick, there is a pub called Portland Ale House in Valencia's Eixample neighborhood (which is similar to Barcelona's Eixample grid). It's really fantastic, and was the only bar I knew of in Spain that brewed their own beer. Pretty sure an expat runs the place. Hope you continue enjoying and being inspired by this European journey, looking forward to what comes next!
Fantastic....seeing Valencia's gorgeous train station made me misty eyed (the paella made me bawl). Time revisit. Good call: much more pleasant than looking at Vegas.
You definitely have your own style of delivery. Sometimes it comes across as you not being excited about your topic, but the videos are informative and you are a little witty, so they are still good. Sort of like listening to Ben Stein though, but funnier and much more left leaning.
Armchair Urbanist/Alan Fisher had a great video two days ago about how rails vs. trails is a misguided debate because it's really cars taking over then everyone else (transit and peds/bikes) fighting over the scraps. I think the same point could be made about e-scooters; that the biggest issues with e-scooters come from sharing spaces with peds and bikes, and that repurposing more auto space to these modes would smooth everything over. Personally, I quite like my scooter because I frequently have last-mile connections to make, and walking takes too long while a bike seems like overkill and is harder to take on transit.
Sub from Vienna, Austria. As an avid pedestrian, I have my issues with e-scooters since it seems that most people simply just don't know or don't care where to park/put them, especially when they are out of power. I feel like they just clog up the sidewalks. Another issue is that many people on e-scooters use the sidewalks as well, which is very dangerous for all parties. You also are not required to wear a helmet here, which is funny as one of our ministers was recently hospitalized after an accident on an e-scooter. I understand that they have their value, but I rather stick to other modes. Anyway, keep up the great work, I really enjoy at least taking some part in nerding out about topics like this one!
I personally enjoy your oratory style because I speak in a similar manner! Makes me feel a lil less insecure every time I watch your vids. btw you should totally look into Baton Rouge's mid city neighborhood
We have those dockless electric scooters here but they're geofenced to not work on the college campus (which in general I think is a good idea; having people whip through congested areas at high speed on a motorized vehicle is not ideal) but people are super irresponsible about where they leave them. You can tell exactly where the geofence is because there are always a half dozen scooters toppled over in the middle of the sidewalk there, forcing you to get of and walk your bike around/lift it over the scooters. Needless to say, I really hate dockless shared vehicles.
I’m a huge fan of e-scooters and e-bikes. I’ve put hundreds of miles on my e-scooter in the Denver area. I can roll it into the train and can usually store it indoors at most destinations behind the counter. I’m on my third battery and second set of tires.
It makes sense that the scooters require helmets but not bikes. With a scooter almost anything you hit will cause you fly forward over the scooter, with a bike on the other hand unless there is a brick (which actually happened to me 3 months ago) or maybe a sudden car or card door you aren't flying over the handlebar, your crashing into the handlebar and then falling over hurting mostly your hand, arm, knee or leg. Bikes can usually easily ride over tree branches and tree debris, whereas a scooter will come to a complete stop but your body won't
(Writting this before watching the video just to tell my own experience) I owned an electric scooter for few years (2017-2022) and made over 12000km with it, only adding a bigger external battery, and litteraly it's what opened my appetite for "soft mobilities" and now I'm using my bike for about everything in my city and even for transportation outside my city (while in the past I was a real car addict). It's been some interesting years and I really liked being an early adopter and being asked by everyone from kids to old people what this "thing" was and seeing their amazement when I explained them that it was an electric scooter.... but then more and more people started using them and overal even if now some of them really use them not nicely, it's a great tool to show people that they can move in their city differently and it can even be effortless... In my case I like the fact that it introduced me to bike commuting while before that I just considered bike as a hooby basically.... So yeah in my case I'd say amazing tool... tho yeah I recon a lot of problems lies with free floating rental scooters and in that case it's a complex problem I recon but it's often crazy exagerated when compared with all the danger and problems caused by cars.
that was awesome! I did not know about baseball in Spain. If you have not been to Seoul you should think about visiting. I would be interested in hearing your opinion. There aren't many street-level bike paths but they make up for it by having extensive biking and walking paths throughout the city.
I would be more accepting of this rent a micromobility if they were semi-dockable. I.E. at major transit hubs give a discount for connecting a low batt scoot to the charger. But the biggest problem with these is the directionality of use meaning you need infrastructure to move them back out from city centers and they block ADA accessible sidewalks.
Topic suggestion - apartment complexes. How we went from apartment buildings in urban areas to suburban apartment complexes where residents tradeoff space but don't get the same benefits.
In Vienna, we bild a second riverbed just in case of folding the Island 500 meters 20 km between the Danube and the new Danube is the best reaction spot in the city and hosts our biggest festivals every year. It is also a grate bike trip
We have Lime scooters in Spokane Washington. I use them when I'm bored and sometimes when I need a ride, but they are expensive, inconvenient to park, and always being destroyed or thrown into the Spokane River.
DC has changed (thankfully!) its requirements for dockless bikeshare and e-scooters: they must be locked to a post or tree of some kind, which guarantees they are out of the way of the pavement/sidewalk. Before, people would leave those in the way making walking difficult (not to mention painful for those in wheelchairs or mobility scooters). But it's been super effective.
Here in the San Francisco Bay area, most people still drive everywhere. We did see the roll out of the e-scooters a few years ago and they were stupidly annoying. Not because of how they were ridden, but because they would get left all over the place. They were cluttering up the wheelchair ramps of sidewalks, blocking the sidewalks on busy roads, and just generally being a nuisance. I don't like the "scooter share" services, but if someone wants to ride their own personal e-scooter, I'm totally ok with that. It's one less car on the road. I acknowledge that I might feel differently if I was in an area with loads of usage of bike lanes, but usually I only see one or two other users in our bike lanes (not including the cars that are there when they shouldn't be). I don't mind sharing the bike lane with scooters (of the kick scooter variety), mobility scooters and/or motorized wheel chairs, or even the occasional "urban outdoorsman" pushing a shopping cart full of their belongings.
Exactly this. Outsourcing the cost of assholes onto society is the problem I have with rental e-scooters. Force them to be returned to designated locations or be hit with a stiff fine, and the problem will go away. The companies know this, but do nothing except pretend to care with "free credit if you return your scooter here" models. Assholes don't think that far ahead. Personal e-scooter owners aren't going to abandon them. Not more than once, anyway...
Valencia kicks so much ass as a city it makes no sense. When I visited I didn't really know what to expect and I was amazed. And the high speed rail between Valencia and Madrid is unreal. Oh, and Valencia has the best mercado central of any Spanish city and it's not close y váyanse con esa joda de Barcelona y ya.
In San Jose, CA, the scooters are limited to 12 mph. Hardly usable.. When I moved to Austin, the speed was capped at 18 mph (much better!). Now I live in Fort Worth where there are no scooters, but there is a bike share system, which isn't bad.
Before the video: I think they can be fine together. During: Way to advertise another RU-vid channel in Not Just Bikes. After Video: Looks like both can get along and even get along with walkers.
The whole reason I am always grinning watching you and especially hearing you speak IS your camera delivery and the way you speak "in public" your sort of "monotone" presentation underlines how obvious good city planning should be, and also under-senstionalizes the content, making you more focused on the actual message, and that in turn brings all the little jokes more to the surface.
I saw a guy bust his head open on one of those scooters. He was trying to be cool with his friends and hop off the curb. I will never forget the tire sound. *sherp sherp* and he hit the ground and wrapped around one of those ParkMobile poles.
I think e-scooters are nice, if you have to commute a longer distance. Because (especially) on hot days, you will sweat on a bike, which can be awkward at work. You might say an e-bike is the superior solution, but while yes, it drives more safely and comfortably, you have to worry about it getting stolen or vandalized, when parking it outside. An e-scooter is small and light enough that you can fold it and take it into your apartment or office The second thing I find pretty useful is the flexibility. It's far easier to transport an e-scooter by car or by train than a bike, because you can fold them to take up little space. So for someone who has to commute by car, you can park outside of the busy city center, get the scooter out of your trunk and drive the last miles with it. Same goes for the train. If it's a longer way from the train station to your workplace or home, just get off the train and drive the last mile with the e-scooter.
Been here in August last year, we did a guided bike run by dutch students. It was great and for the average dutchie on a bike easy doable. Its not like in the Netherlands but this city has set its plans in the right direction. The only thing we found frustrating the bike routes are far from logic sometimes as it had suddenly stopping paths leading you straight on the main road with cars and busses. Also they made some interesting design choices here and there. We did a good 40 km in one 1,5 day and found it quite enjoyable. And as a dutch who follows multiple channels that tell people how much they like our bike paths and infrastructure it was even more interesting to see how they deal with transportation in the city. The only thing that we found odd is that although they have plenty of bike lanes we almost saw nobody on bike. Just a lost tourist on a e-scooter occasionally. But that must be our fault since it was 32 degrees Ccelsius. and we where the only ones crazy enough to cycle around ;-)
I live in Westwood in Los Angeles CA and there are always dockless scooter clogging up sidewalk. Sometimes they block the stairs that lead to apartments. What's terrible is most of the trips on scooters are replacing walking trips too. If it weren't for the scooters the trips would be walking or they wouldn't make the trip.
Well I for one will say you're my favorite urbanist RU-vidr *because* of your demeanor! NJB and Alan Fisher are much too condescending for me, but your level of sarcasm/wit is 👌.
Berlin has recent bike infrastructure and few to no restrictions on e-scooters, but they are only a very small minority of the 2-wheel traffic, for whatever reason.
Long time acoustic cyclist here. Last year, I bought an eScooter in preparation for a surgery which would render me incapable of sitting on a bicycle seat for approx 6months. I gotta say that I really love the thing. It's ridiculously easy to bring on a train, and for commuting it has pros and cons with the bike. I will say, the learning curve is a bit odd. It's really easy to ride but difficult to ride well. My advice to anyone wanting to ride one is that it's half way between a skateboard and a bike. You have to be comfortable using your feet to help balance and steer it, especially if you want to be able to make hand signals. In pros and cons, I'd say the bike has a lot more cargo capacity, and can go further. It's also a good deal safer, because of the bigger wheels, but also because it has a much more linear learning curve. The scooter is very convenient for short trips, and many places will let you walk it indoors (but definitely never ride it indoors). You can also wear nicer clothes on the scooter without getting as hot and sweaty. I've even been able to ride it wearing heels, although I'd say it's 30% harder and more dangerous (and only wedges less than 2inch). The last trade off is who's doing the effort. Sometimes you want to ride for exercise or for the sense of fun and accomplishment, or whatever, and sometimes you just want the motor to give you that consistent 18mph (or whatever your scooter's max speed is, mine's 18, 32kmh). I'll say both of them will have a place in my life.
I think the success of e-scooters depend a lot on who is using them. If it is mainly drunk tourists, they get a bad reputation and no local people use it for daily trips, making them even more of a drunk-tourist thing. But if they are primarily used by local people I think they can be a decent addition to the mobility options that can be integrated well without major conflicts. Unfortunately, the cities have very little power to control who's using the scooters, but in general I have observed them working a lot better in cities with low levels of party tourism.
Well this is a channel to which I've now subscribed and am watching all the previous videos. Great qualitative and quantitative information, great footage, great research, and especially FANTASTIC presentation, laced with insights and dry humour and I love it.
Sounds like shared scooters need a system to charge people big bucks if they don't return the scooters to a base station. And bigger bucks if the scooter is damaged and not returned. Should be do-able in the software.
I am biking regularly and doing it as a main or a secondary means of transportation for a decade now. I have never gotten on a scooter and would probably not get on one anytime soon. If I ever go electric, it will most probably be a bike. That being said, I love the scooter boom. It's not taking from bikers. In my opinion it's mostly people who do not enjoy the physical activity and just want a more casual means of transportation that's still fast and does not eff up nature. Everyone that decides not to drive and picks a more climate friendly means of transportation is a win in my book.
