Tag: bird

June 6, 2024

Lime’s new throttle/pedal assist hybrid e-bike makes the best dockless bike even better

I was worried when I first read Lime’s announcement that they were launching a new throttle-controlled e-bike in Seattle because their existing Gen3 pedal-assist e-bikes were by far the best bike share bikes I’ve ever ridden. Would the new Gen4 bikes be more like sit-down scooters than bikes (like the Veo Cosmo “bikes”)? Well, I…
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tagged: bike share, bird, limebike, ORCA Lift, veo
January 2, 2024

2023 Seattle bike and scooter share rides reach record 5.1 million rides as Lime consolidates its lead

Bike and scooter share services are more popular than ever in Seattle, and the number of rides in 2023 eclipsed even the wild days of $1 bikes back in 2017 and 2018. According to SDOT data based on real-time reporting from all permitted companies, people took 5.1 million trips on shared scooters and bikes in…
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tagged: bike share, bird, limebike, scooter share, sdot, superpedestrian, veo
August 14, 2023

I rode the new Bird bike

Scooter share company Bird has quietly launched new shared e-bikes in Seattle in addition to their fleet of scooters, so of course I had to hunt one down and take it for a ride. The company’s pedal-assist e-bikes are the first direct competitor to Lime since Lime took over JUMP in 2020. Veo also has…
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tagged: bike share, bird
June 16, 2023

Seattle bike and scooter share users took 3.7 million trips last year

People in Seattle took 3.7 million trips on shared bikes and scooters in the past year, a massive rebound from the 1.4 million trips per year when pandemic restrictions and many business closures were in place. During the busiest summer months, the daily rides averaged over 15,000 trips per day. Six years into the city’s…
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tagged: bike share, bird, limebike, scooter share, sdot, superpedestrian, veo
December 7, 2022

Transit GO app now includes scooter and bike share rewards + Use new micromobility parking areas to get ride discounts

Transit GO is an interesting and mostly functional mobile app that allows riders to pay for transit tickets on their phones while also gamifying the transit riding experience. And now scooter and bike share services are now part of the game, too. The app is only for people paying full price for transit as they…
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tagged: bike & scoot to transit, bike share, bird, king county metro, limebike, link, scooter share, sound transit, transit go, veo