SF News San Francisco Cracks Down on E-Scooter and E-Bike Fires with New Battery Fire Codes After mobility device battery-related fires spiked in the past few years, the San Francisco Fire Department changed its codes regarding lithium-ion batteries, and they went into effect Thursday.
Business & Tech Once High-Flying Scooter Company Bird Declares Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Scooter startup Bird already left San Francisco in February blaming “onerous regulations,” but ten months later they’re declaring Chapter 11 bankruptcy as their stock is down 97%, so you have to wonder about their business acumen.
SF News Another Valencia Bike Lane Accident, as Illegal U-Turn Injures Scooter Rider Valencia Street’s new center bike lanes are likely to remain the center of controversy after yet another accident, this time a driver making a U-turn and colliding with someone riding a scooter in that center lane.
Business & Tech Scooter Company Bird May Go Bankrupt, or Even Out of Business, After an ‘Overstatement’ of Revenue The scooter startup Bird, which also does business in San Francisco as Scoot, is getting its wings clipped after reportedly overstating revenue for two years, and is now mulling bankruptcy, or discontinuing business altogether.
SF News Supervisors Demand Scooter Crackdown, Want Them Banned From SF Sidewalks Complaining of a “scourge of e-scooter sidewalk riding,” the SF Board of Supervisors passed a resolution Tuesday demanding that scooter companies add geofencing technology to keep people from riding the damned things on sidewalks.
SF News E-Scooter Companies Scoot, Lime, and Jump Halt Operations in SF; Spin Continues Running Scoot, Lime, and Jump are choosing to stop all operations in San Francisco over the COVID-19 pandemic. Of SF’s four e-scooter rental companies, only Ford Motor Company-owned Spin continues to run, promising to clean their scooters more often to provide "a safe ride."
SF News 750 Additional E-Scooters Allowed In San Francisco As The City's Expansion Program Matures Like them or not, several hundred new electric scooters are permitted to hit the pavement today as part of a city-wide initiative to increase their availability, sans (hopefully) another 'scooter-geddon'
SF News Scooters Could Double In Numbers as City Considers Expanding Pilot Program The scaled-back scooter fleet might get major reinforcements, as the SFMTA is pleased with how the scooter program is moving along.
SF News Man On Scooter Falls From 101 To His Death A man riding a scooter on 101 in San Francisco was killed Wednesday night, when he fell from the the highway to the street far below. According to California Highway Patrol spokesperson Officer
SF News Drivers, Scooter Riders, Cyclists Flouting Statewide Dual Earbud Ban Though laws prohibiting drivers and cyclists from wearing headphones or earplugs in both ears have been on the books for years, it wasn't until January, 2016, that the law was extended
SF News Reward, 10-Minute Head Start Offered For Hunter Pence's Scooter Return Hunter Pence remains in a state of deep melancholia after his scooter was swiped from outside Epic Roasthouse on Sunday. "He had a sad face on," Bochy said in the hours
SF News Someone Stole Hunter Pence's Scooter So iconic that the Giants used it in his bobblehead, Hunter Pence's scooter was reportedly stolen on Sunday. The scooter is customized with his name and uniform number. Hunter tweets: Ahhhh
