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Do Four E-Scooters Make a Car? Someone Found Out

If balancing on one e-scooter is too difficult, why not put together a sketchy frame, add a seat and a Wii steering wheel, and drive 4 scooters like a car?

RideApart

E-scooter hire firm Voi threatens to pull out of 'too heavily regulated' London

The company says it could instead choose to deploy a fleet of 20,000 e-bikes across the capital as they face less strict rules

Evening Standard

Simplify e-bike rules and boost parking spaces to reduce 'clutter' on London's streets, report warns

Almost half of young Londoners use a rental e-bike at least once a week, survey data suggests

Evening Standard

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Lime plotting £25m London e-bike expansion after company's scooters banned from Paris streets

Firm plans to expand services to three further boroughs and open a new warehouse

Evening Standard

How to live Harry Styles’ low-key London life: from Lime bikes to snogging in Soho

Harry Styles is just like us, really. Here’s how to follow in his laid-back London footsteps

Evening Standard

City of London police seize five illegal 'souped-up' e-bikes and scooters every week

The bikes are essentially turned into motorbikes

Evening Standard

London council pleads: 'Give us powers to crack down on abandoned e-bikes'

Westminster council says new legislation is 'missing link' in enabling boroughs to tackle lazily-parked hire bikes

Evening Standard

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London's Lime bike epidemic: badly parked cycles are a scourge on the capital's streets

They have transformed the way we get about in our city but the sheer amount of discarded cycles strewn on our pavements has become an increasing menace. Robbie Griffiths reports

Evening Standard

Whose Lime is it anyway? How the green ebikes took over our streets

Are the tech giant’s bikes a convenient and sustainable form of transport or a menace clogging up pavements?

The Guardian - UK

Banksy stop sign: Metropolitan Police arrest man after Peckham theft

Men used bolt cutters to steal sign worth up to £500,000

Evening Standard

Emergency doctors call for tighter controls on e-scooters as Melbourne injuries skyrocket

Injuries presenting to Royal Melbourne hospital jumped from five in February 2022 to 40 in December last year after Victoria’s e-scooter trial began

The Guardian - AU

Love them or hate them, a UK government decision on e-scooters is well overdue

Despite local trials being cut short for safety concerns, regulation has been kicked down the road, says Oliver Wainwright, the Guardian’s architecture and design critic

The Guardian - UK

E-scooters stuck in legislation limbo as mood sours among Britons

Some champion their environmental impact, others point out potential dangers – but most agree regulation is needed

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - The Standard View: The West must do all it can to prevent a wider war

World leaders assembled for a phone call over the weekend with the difficult but essential aim of averting a wider conflict in the Middle East. They reiterated their support for Israel and its right to defend itself and also called for respect for international law, the release of hostages by…

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Lime bikes to overtake Boris bikes in London hire race

Lime bikes are proving increasingly popular with Londoners

Evening Standard

Dott: Dockless e-bike firm quits capital for Paris over ‘lack of control’

Dott will focus on e-scooters instead after criticising lack of regulation for hire bikes

Evening Standard

Lewisham becomes latest borough to create parking bays for Lime e-bikes

Riders who do not park in the designated bays will be unable to end their journey in the app

Evening Standard

Lime bike contractors snatch back cycles seized for blocking London roads

Police have been called in after contractors working for e-bike firm Lime went into a London council’s pound to snatch back dozens of cycles seized for blocking roads and pavements.

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Chicago Sun-Times

Superpedestrian pulls out of Chicago scooter-rental market

The company blamed stiff competition with competitor Lyft, which operates the city’s Divvy short-term bike rental service.

Chicago Sun-Times

Lime reports over 1 million scooter rides in Chicago this year

The San Francisco-based company attributes part of the boom to the equity discount offered on the South and West sides.

InsideEVs

Paris Says Goodbye To Electric Scooter Rentals, E-Bike Sharing Encouraged

In Paris, France, electric scooter rentals have been officially banned, following a votation that saw 90 percent of participants in favor of the ban.

Evening Standard

Westminster council outlines plans for crackdown on dockless e-bikes littering streets

The new arrangement in the borough will be in place for an 18-month trial period

Evening Standard

Paris becomes first major European capital to ban rental e-scooters

Paris has become the first major European capital to ban rental electric scooters from its streets.

Radio France Internationale

Rented electric scooters vanish from Paris streets

Parisians woke up on Friday to a world without rented electric scooters, loathed as a pedestrian-bothering nuisance by some but mourned by others.

The Guardian - AU

Melbourne e-scooters will ‘shout’ at riders in no-go areas, deputy mayor says

Nicholas Reece says council’s ‘technological solutions’ will crack down on ‘hoon behaviour’ such as riding on footpaths

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