Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Scooter companies are moving fast and breaking people, but they say they’re not to blame

As I bike to an Oakland town hall meeting about scooters on Monday, I see two young men riding electric scooters. They both look to be about 15 and neither are wearing helmets. One is with me, on the street. The other is on the sidewalk. We all ride beside each other — though I am slower than either boy, since I do not generally bike at 15 miles per hour down city streets — until I pull over at Frank Ogawa Plaza to park my bike.

At the scooter community town hall, representatives from Lime, Bird, and Skip make a point of telling Oaklanders that teens on scooters definitely aren’t the scooter companies’ fault. “To some degree, this is a parent issue,” says Marlo Sandler, the senior manager of government relations at Bird. Skip requires...

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