![]() ![]() Since scooter riders aren’t counted in PBOT bike counts, this could be one of the many reasons city bike ridership may have gone down over the last few years, and could call for a change in how the bike counts are done. “To me, this says that when the city adds more scooters, we’ll see a lot more trips!” Pierson wrote in a message to BikePortland.īut e-scooter use in Portland is higher now than it has ever been, and that rise in ridership has been consistent with the decline in bike ridership in the city. there are about 13 vehicles per 1000 people, whereas Portland has about three scooters per 1000 people. There were only 391,600 rides in Portland during this time.Īccording to Nelle Pierson from Ride Report, this can partially be attributed to a lack of scooters in Portland compared to other cities. Last summer, Denver saw a total of more than 1.5 million e-scooter rides, and there were about 1.7 million rides in Washington, D.C. Still, compared to e-scooter usage in some similar-sized cities, Portland is falling short. ![]() Portland e-scooter ridership during the third quarter of 2022 (green) compared to Washington, D.C. E-scooter passes are also included in PBOT’s Transportation Wallet program, allowing more people to access the service free of charge or at a reduced rate. Plus, Spin and Lime both have equity programs ( similar to Biketown for All), allowing people living on low-incomes to access free and discounted trips. But now that Biketown, Portland’s bike share service, has raised its rates, it may not cost that much more to rent a scooter than a bike. Portland’s e-scooter companies charge $.36-$.49 cents a minute, plus an additional $1 fee to start. ![]() One of the reason more people don’t ride e-scooters for daily transportation is because the price can be prohibitively expensive. And if that’s enough to get someone to replace a car trip, I think that’s great. More casual users may ride for novelty - anyone who’s tried one of these devices would probably admit that they’re quite thrilling to use. He added that you can ride an e-scooter in the summer without getting sweaty at all. With a rental scooter, I don’t have to worry about maintenance, flat tires, or it getting stolen,” he wrote. “I could bike…but lugging it up the porch, through the living room and down to the basement every day just seems like a pain in the ass. He said his scooter commute costs as much as a TriMet ticket, and he prefers it to riding a bike because of the ease of use. This is the first I’ve heard of someone doing this, so I had some questions. One thing seems certain, though: scooters are here to stay, so we thought it was time to check-in and take a closer look.Īccording to PBOT’s Shared Micromobility Snapshot for 2022, which the agency released Tuesday afternoon, 2022 was a “historic year for Portland’s Biketown and e- Scooter programs.” Regardless of which company becomes PBOT’s permanent scooter operator, scooter ridership is higher than ever and the devices are contending more and more with bikes as a means of personal transportation.Ī BikePortland reader who messaged me on Twitter said he uses a Lime scooter for his daily commute to work in Portland. Even though the three companies that operate rental programs here -Lime, Spin and Bird - have all replaced their scooter supply over the past year and a half, the Portland Bureau of Transportation still hasn’t made its decision about which scooter company (or companies) will be integrated into a permanent system. Today, Portland’s e-scooter program is in a state of flux. Though once feared to be an agent of disaster, it seems like the panic over e-scooters in Portland has mostly died down over the last few years as people got used to their presence. (Photo: Jonathan Maus/BikePortland)Įlectric scooter rentals first hit the streets of Portland almost five years ago, during the summer of 2018, and they’ve since become a fixture in the city. Scooters in the mix on Naito Parkway in 2018.
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