On: Bird Acquires Scoot

[dawhizkid]

I hardly see anyone in SF using scooters anymore. When I do, I usually see people riding the Skip ones and not so much the Scoot ones.

[gabaix → dawhizkid]

I ride every day in SF and I gave up on Scoot. There are too few of them. A lot of them are out of service. It’s not even worth checking the app.

I would like to see more scooters. There is a shortage of scooters and ebikes in the popular Caltrain <> downtown route.

[ScottFree → gabaix]

That's too bad. I used Scoot a lot back in 2012 before they even had one way trips. The biggest issue back then was also lack of availability near the Caltrain. I get the distinct impression that's going to be the achilles heal of the entire "last mile" effort in SF.

I'd be interested in learning if anybody takes the BART into SF and then uses Scoot or something similar. I imagine that would be more successful since there are many more stops downtown.

[jamesjyu → gabaix]

Try using the Transit app which consolidates all the scooters and bikes together, that way you can still opportunistically ride a scoot.

[baby → dawhizkid]

in my case, I cannot sign up to Scoot because I do not have a driver license. Theoretically I can't ride skip either, but they accepted a picture of my passport so it works.