Further improvements have included requiring software to prevent sidewalk riding (something the bikes don't require) and a requirement that scooters be locked to bike parking, or in a dock...
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As part of this pilot there is a public component (Divvy - which shares a common heritage with Toronto Bikeshare) and private components (Lime and Spin - which are capped at 12500 scooters)...that's 12500 vehicles that the city didn't have to invest in, a larger fleet than Toronto's bikeshare system
So have they pulled back as @mckelvieto.bsky.social stated? No...not since 2020...and in fact ridership between of the entire fleet (bikes and scooters) is 11m...much higher than Toronto's...and bikes only make up 6m of that - slightly less than Toronto's bike system...5m are scooter rides...
What does this mean for Toronto? It means that to get to a similar amount of rides we will have to invest a lot more money than Chicago has, and we may never be able to catch up, because the reality is that many folks prefer to use scooters...
As @mckelvieto.bsky.social says, we need to learn from other cities and figure out a way to get to YES on scooters...this is only half the problem of course, we still need to opt in to private scooters...
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