Tag: limebike

August 9, 2024

I rode Lime’s new sit-down scooter

I took the new Lime Glider sit-down scooter for a test ride a few days before the company rolls 280 of them out in the U District starting for a trial. People can ride them anywhere they want within the Lime service area for the same price as their bikes and scooters, but Lime staff…
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tagged: bike share, lime glider, limebike, scooter share, sit-down scooters
August 2, 2024

In July, Lime bikes and scooters carried half as many trips as the $2B SR-99 tunnel

People in Seattle took 24,118 trips on Lime bikes and scooters every day on average during the month of July. That is nearly five times the average weekday ridership for both Seattle Streetcar lines combined, and it’s about half the average number of vehicles using the $2 billion SR-99 tunnel under downtown (47,291 average vehicles…
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tagged: bike share, deep bore tunnel, limebike, scooter share, sr 99
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
March 7, 2024

Veo ‘temporarily pauses’ Seattle service, pledges to relaunch with refreshed e-bikes

Veo paused Seattle service as of March 1, but the company says they will return in “several weeks” with refreshed e-bikes and revamped operations. With the demise of SuperPedestrian and their LINK scooter service as well as the ongoing bankruptcy of Bird, Lime has been eagerly gobbling up market share in Seattle. Veo, meanwhile, is…
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tagged: bike share, limebike, scooter share, 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
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