Effective October 26, The Scooter Store lost its federal contract with Medicare eliminating the ability to sell assets in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company entered liquidation and terminated its employees on September 13, 2013.

LA is different. It's so car dominated and hungry for alternatives to the automobile.” Despite that apparent hunger, two scooter operators - Lyft and Spin - recently exited the Los Angeles area, blaming a lack of favorable regulations and too much competition, which apparently made it difficult to turn a profit.

Dallas tried allowing scooters in 2018 but ended up banning them in 2020 because of safety concerns. According to Kathryn Rush, the chief planner for transportation for the city of Dallas, the goal this time around is to provide a more safe, orderly, and equitable system.

It soon became clear that electric scooters were here to stay. Not only did they manage to stay on the market, but their popularity keeps rising, years after they first got noticed.

37,000 scooters Since 2019, when LADOT granted permits to Bird, Lime, Spin and five other companies to operate 37,000 scooters as part of the country's largest micromobility program, the city has wrestled with balancing scooters' benefits and hazards. The pandemic provided an inadvertent reset button.

The backstory: In 2020, Dallas City Council banned electric scooters from the city, citing concerns about public safety. Common complaints about the scooters included riders parking them incorrectly or driving too fast and an overabundance of scooters cluttering city streets.

The city said Dallas' lack of control over the scooters was one of the primary reasons they were taken off the streets. Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Omar Narvaez speaks to reporters at the official relaunch of the city's shared dockless vehicle program Wednesday, May 31, 2023.

Scooter is a German happy hardcore, rave and techno music band founded in Hamburg in 1993. To date, the band has sold over 30 million records and earned over 80 Gold and Platinum awards.

E-scooters viewed as convenient, faster, and better in hot weather than walking. Non-white non-riders significantly more likely to intend to try e-scooters. E-scooters disproportionately replace walking and bicycling for all trip types.

Big Increases in Shared Micromobility Use in 2019 In 2019, people took 40 million trips on station-based bike share systems (pedal & e-bikes) and 96 million trips on dockless e-bikes (10M trips) and scooters (86M trips). In 2019, 109 cities had dockless scooter programs, a 45% increase from 2018.

Scooter deck sizes Scooter decks are generally in the 4.5”-7” width range with lots of between sizes. For younger and smaller riders, we recommend staying in the 4.5” - 5.5” width range.

As well as being cool, cost-effective, convenient and hassle-free, electric scooters are also greener than alternative means of transportation, becoming the perfect replacement for the car and offering a potential solution to gridlocked streets and air pollution.