Scoot or boot? The City of Calgary wants your opinion on e-scooters
Tired of getting run down by e-scooters on the streets of Calgary? Love the convenience and wind through your hair? Don’t live in the inner city and could literally care less? Well, the city wants to know! Whether you’re all for the vehicle alternative or think they’re the motorized pigeons of the pathways, Calgary administration is encouraging the public to participate in a city-wide survey.
The survey is part of the sixteen-month pilot project that brought the scooters to the city in July. Wow, feels like it was only yesterday!
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The results of the survey are to be posted later this year and will be followed by a formal presentation to the city committee and council. Basically, based on the feedback, they’re going to determine whether or not Calgary will implement shared mobility permanently. More specifically, the scooters.
As of right now, the distribution of e-scooters in Calgary has been approved for two different companies, Lime and Bird. With 1,500 of the scooters on the streets, together, riders have travelled over 1.3 million kilometres. That’s basically the diameter of the sun. Try us… We Googled it. Combined trips total more than 550,000 so far.
Calgarians who haven’t yet taken a ride on a green and white whip only have a few more weeks to try it out and submit an opinion. The scooters won’t be available during icy months for obvious reasons. Meaning from November until next March, we’ll be left without the luxury of a quick scoot. How will we survive?
