Portland does not like scooters

[petrea_mitchell]

From The Oregonian: "Divers pull more than 50 e-scooters from Willamette River"

Lime, Bird and Razor e-scooters were piled up in a boat Tuesday while a dive team searched along the downtown sea wall for more. Sgt. Brandon White from the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office said he wasn’t sure who put the scooters in the river or why they were put there.

“We advise those people not to park scooters in the River,” White said.

Comments

[delosharriman]

Here in Fort Worth there is a City-sponsored bike-share program. A few months back, someone was observed throwing one of the bicycles in the river, while wishing profanely for the arrival of these scooters.

[petrea_mitchell]

Did they actually sound like they wanted the scooters, or was it more a "I can't wait to throw one of those in here" kind of thing?

[delosharriman]

What I gleaned from the newspaper was that the person was deriding bicycles generally & wishing he had a scooter to ride instead.
Meanwhile, I was in Dallas over the weekend for A-Kon, & in the downtown there were quite a few people zipping around on scooters (many of them in a decidedly reckless manner), as well as people on bicycles, including "Limebike" rentals.