San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber and Lyft

Re:San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber... by kurthr on Friday August 31, 2018 @12:39AM (#17882988)

What's the permit for leaving your product lying on the public sidewalk? There are several (for signs, seats, etc), and you're also supposed to pick up after your animals, not leave stuff laying about.

Undocked transportation? I think that without some formal approval it would be within the cities right to confiscate items left on the public right-of-way and auction it off to the highest bidder.

You can't even legally leave garbage out for collection (in unapproved containers) except for certain days.

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Re:San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber... by ebikelaw on Friday August 31, 2018 @12:41AM (#17882999)

I guess you’re just overlooking cars? People leave their cars all over SF all day every day.

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Re:San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber... by kurthr on Friday August 31, 2018 @12:52AM (#17883037)

And they get towed all day every day... the fine for towing from a sidewalk is $400 last I checked, plus towing fees, plus nightly storage. Pretty soon you'll owe $10k on each scooter, and if you want to operate as a business within city limits you have to pay the fines.

Actually, if the city went after them as moving vehicles they would be collected by the towers in hours.

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Re:San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber... by coddingtonbear on Friday August 31, 2018 @12:55AM (#17883045)

You have to realize that those parking spots are explicitly intended for car storage, no? The city even marks many of them --- even charges for their use by the hour.

If you were going to claim that our allocation of city resources to parking is excessive, I'd agree, but you can't reasonably claim that parking a car there isn't using the space for it's intended purpose.

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