Business & Tech Lyft Laying Off More Staff, Scaling Back Bike and Scooter Division SF-based Lyft is going through a restructuring, and making some changes in its bike and scooter division to become more profitable, which includes laying off 1% of its staff.
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 Scooter Rider Possibly Killed Near Alamo Square; Pedestrian Killed on Polk Street Two collisions Tuesday night in San Francisco killed two people in separate incidents, one near Alamo Square and one in the Tenderloin.
SF News E-Scooter Ignites In SF Apartment; Residents Jump From Window, 1 Injured A recent e-scooter explosion that caused two individuals to leap from the window of their apartment in San Francisco adds to the growing list of lithium-ion battery-related fires.
SF News Dutch Tourist Dies Following Scooter Collision In Downtown San Francisco A 55-year-old Dutch man who was visiting San Francisco earlier this month has died from injuries he sustained after being struck by a scooter on Market Street.
SF News Mission District Couple Describes Brutal Attack Near Dolores Park on Super Bowl Sunday A couple walking on 18th Street outside Mission High School on Sunday says they were set upon and assaulted by two female suspects, allegedly for no reason, or because they were blocking the path of the suspects' electric scooters.
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 Humpday Headlines: Woman on Scooter Killed In Tenderloin A 25-year-old woman on a scooter was killed in a hit-and-run on Sunday, the SF school board approved far fewer layoffs than had been expected, and Elon Musk is hinting that he'll move Twitter out of the Bay Area because of "strong left bias."
SF News E-Scooter Startup Revel To Introduce 400 Electric Mopeds in SF Next Month As local e-scooter rental companies continue operating in San Francisco amid the pandemic, a new e-scooter startup is slated to soon wheel in some 400 electric mopeds — the same ones that have already inundated Oakland — which will be available to rent in August.
SF News Elderly Woman Injured In E-Scooter Crash On Embarcadero A 69-year-old woman was severely injured Monday afternoon when she collided with a cement mixer while riding an e-scooter near the intersection of Bay Street and the Embarcadero.
Business & Tech City Aims to Shut Down 'Rogue' Scooter Company Go X for Operating With Allegedly Forged Permit Calling the business's actions "next-level craziness," the SFMTA and the City Attorney's Office are seeking to shut down the e-scooter company Go X, which has been operating in San Francisco without a city permit now for a year.
SF News Here's How To Safely Get Around The Bay Area on New Year's Eve From free Muni and Caltrain rides to discounted cabs, here's how to traverse our slice of Northern California during the last New Year's Eve of this decade.
SF News It's Getting Easier To Rent E-Scooters In SF With Good Old-Fashioned Cash A handful of e-scooter providers are ardent about accepting cash payments for citywide rentals, widening their accessibility to the masses — who may or may not have a CVV number to their name.
SF News Idiot Takes E-Scooter Onto Bay Bridge Some damn fool — apparently a tourist — took an e-scooter onto the Bay Bridge to head eastward during the evening commute on Wednesday. And no, he was not hurt or killed so he now must be publicly shamed.
SF News Guess What! Bird Bought Scoot In the Great Scooter War of 2018-19, a new volley has come over the horizon: Scooter-rental company Bird, which got booted out of the game in SF last year because they were playing too aggressively, is officially back in the game with the acquisition of Scoot.
SF News Ridiculous Swedish Startup Wants To Rent Us Pogo Sticks Now It is in fact June 1st, not April 1st, and this is allegedly a real story: A Swedish mobility company wants to bring pogo-stick rentals to San Francisco. I guess because e-scooters are neither ridiculous nor dangerous enough as it is?
SF News Bird Scooters Return To SF Streets Via Monthly Rental Loophole Though the company was not selected to be part of San Francisco's pilot program for scooter shares, Bird has figured out a way to get back into SF.
Arts & Entertainment Ask a San Francisco Native: Have Bikes and Cars Always Hated Each Other? Dear Rain, I feel like there's a lot of weird antagonism between cyclists, motorists, and pedestrians in this town, a feeling, I will admit, I got after reading numerous comments on bike related
SF News Video: Divis Driver Strikes Scooter In Midst Of Illegal U-Turn A new partnership between Hoodline and a free iPhone dashcam app called Nexar is already yielding some dramatic video content for the neighborhood news network. The concept, admittedly a bit terrifying, has a
SF News Terrifying POV Video Captures Scooter Slamming Into SoMa Jogger A terrible accident caught on film highlights the dangers faced everyday by pedestrians on the streets of San Francisco. The crash, which thankfully did not result in any death, occurred when a scooter
