Re:Lyft is ceasing scooter operations in six cities and layi...
by Terretta on Friday November 15, 2019 @07:08AM
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Strongly agree... I see they are pulling out of PHX.
With Lyft scooters everywhere in Scottsdale Old Town where’d the’ day launched this past spring, I was consistently able to get door to door from hotel to stores within ~2-3 miles in half the time on scooters vs. the latency of waiting for a car to show up.
Since the area is one giant strip mall, most trips I had finished my errand and come back on scooter before an Uber or Lyft would have ‘completed prior ride’ and eventually found its badly navigated Waze to me.
Local press reports how visitors love the scooters, locals (with cars) hated seeing them everywhere:
”Electric scooters aim to solve the last-mile problem—those gaps between public-transit stops and a person’s final destination. Some locals consider them a nuisance, but for travelers, they offer a new sense of possibility.”
With Lyft scooters everywhere in Scottsdale Old Town where’d the’ day launched this past spring, I was consistently able to get door to door from hotel to stores within ~2-3 miles in half the time on scooters vs. the latency of waiting for a car to show up.
Since the area is one giant strip mall, most trips I had finished my errand and come back on scooter before an Uber or Lyft would have ‘completed prior ride’ and eventually found its badly navigated Waze to me.
Local press reports how visitors love the scooters, locals (with cars) hated seeing them everywhere:
”Electric scooters aim to solve the last-mile problem—those gaps between public-transit stops and a person’s final destination. Some locals consider them a nuisance, but for travelers, they offer a new sense of possibility.”
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