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DOT: Eastern Queens E-Scooter Expansion Will Launch Next Year
The expansion follows a similar, hugely successful rollout in the Bronx, where riders have taken nearly 3 million trips since 2021.
October 13, 2023
Study: How Low-Income People Really Use Micromobility
Shared bikes and scooters are meeting low-income people's basic mobility needs — but they're not being subsidized like it.
September 22, 2023
City to Expand Scooter Share to Eastern Queens
All three of the scooter-share companies that have been providing service in The Bronx since 2021 will be part of a massive expansion of the program into transit-deprived areas of eastern Queens, the Department of Transportation announced on Thursday.
June 15, 2023
Advocates: City Must Make E-Mobility Safer and More Widespread — And Here’s How To Do It
The bike boom is now going vroom, vroom.
May 17, 2023
Finally! Uber Helps Fund Two Battery Buy-Back Programs
The San Francisco-based tech giant, which so far has remained relatively silent on an issue that has blazed through the city, is helping fund the two separate pilot programs both aimed at improving access to safe e-bikes and batteries.
April 11, 2023
Op-Ed: Paris Scooter Ban Is a Step Backward For Sustainable Transport
For the global city that has put the world on notice over the past decade for embracing sustainable transport, Paris recently took a disappointing step backward by enacting a ban on shared scooters, known locally as trottinettes.
April 5, 2023
State Pols Call on DOTs to Counter E-Bike ‘Demonization’
Inaction by the two agencies could give state lawmakers or local municipalities a political opening to ban e-bike and e-scooter use completely on safety grounds, the group of state senators warned.
March 10, 2023
FDNY Backing Council Bills to Address Deadly Fires from Lithium Ion Batteries
Bills to curb e-bike fires are moving ahead.
November 14, 2022
Bronx Scooter Pilot to Become Permanent — And Likely Expand
The universe (of scooters) is expanding.
November 14, 2022
Research: Scooters Cut Car Travel and Emissions More Than Previously Thought
November 6, 2022
