Bird Scooters Have Landed

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Eon Blue wrote: Sun Sep 13, 2020 9:18 pm Saturday night I saw some motorcycles trying to scuff up the 10th & Baltimore BLM mural (with some success).
Did you get pics or video?
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WoodDraw wrote: Sat Sep 12, 2020 9:41 pm These scooters were a bitch this weekend. Lots of young kids, almost always riding them on the sidewalk, dumping them there too.

I don't spend much time in the rest of the urban areas, but downtown there is zero enforcement and it feels like they dumped a shit load of these in the past week or so.
I found the scooters really annoying while we were there. Some people were using them properly which looked like those that actually live downtown, but it was like most of them were kids from the inner city and suburbs and they were basically using downtown as a giant skate park. There were probably more scooters than pedestrians, cars and cyclists combined on most streets which creates an environment to just do what you want with them. Scooters just thrown everywhere and skid marks all over the place. KC is one of first cities I have seen scooters so heavily used as toys and you notice it a lot more in KC since there is hardly anybody else around to force them off the sidewalks and stuff. Just thought it was kinda of annoying. I guess it gives people a reason to go downtown.
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Sturdier Bird model available and scooters have launched in KCK.

https://fox4kc.com/news/bird-scooters-n ... nt-in-kck/
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I like the new models a lot. Had problems with it letting me stop my ride saying it was outside the service area. Finally a phone reboot fixed it but very annoying I had been using one to get somewhere on a time crunch.
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Bird coming to Prairie Village for a 9-month pilot: https://shawneemissionpost.com/2021/06/ ... ge-125574/
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DaveKCMO wrote: Wed Jun 23, 2021 12:37 pm Bird coming to Prairie Village for a 9-month pilot: https://shawneemissionpost.com/2021/06/ ... ge-125574/
Amusingly, I saw two abandoned scooters last week around 9pm on Indian Lane on the Kansas City Country Club easement -- between 63d and Mission Drive. I wondered how they got that far from downtown.
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herrfrank wrote: Wed Jun 23, 2021 5:22 pm
DaveKCMO wrote: Wed Jun 23, 2021 12:37 pm Bird coming to Prairie Village for a 9-month pilot: https://shawneemissionpost.com/2021/06/ ... ge-125574/
Amusingly, I saw two abandoned scooters last week around 9pm on Indian Lane on the Kansas City Country Club easement -- between 63d and Mission Drive. I wondered how they got that far from downtown.
They set them out in Brookside.
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shinatoo wrote: Thu Jun 24, 2021 7:00 am
herrfrank wrote: Wed Jun 23, 2021 5:22 pm
DaveKCMO wrote: Wed Jun 23, 2021 12:37 pm Bird coming to Prairie Village for a 9-month pilot: https://shawneemissionpost.com/2021/06/ ... ge-125574/
Amusingly, I saw two abandoned scooters last week around 9pm on Indian Lane on the Kansas City Country Club easement -- between 63d and Mission Drive. I wondered how they got that far from downtown.
They set them out in Brookside.
Maybe rich parents bought them there own so the could annoy you with out having geofencing to limit where they can go. Think amazon had a special on them.😎
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Minneapolis requires scooters be locked to something, like bike share is here. The only stray scooters I saw were still parked next to something like a telephone pole, but not actually locked (which was not common). Amazing what a difference it makes when just walking around.

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Chicago requires the same.
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can not figure out the new kick stands
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normalthings wrote: Sun Jul 25, 2021 11:56 pm can not figure out the new kick stands
I straddle over it when the trip is complete and pull back on the handlebars while kicking the kickstand forward -- at least that's how it sounds to me when not standing over the new Bird model when writing this.
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Those Bird scooters have migrated to Liberty, MO as well.

https://www.mycouriertribune.com/entert ... ffe9c.html

I noticed them a couple months ago. The article mentions downtown, but I've seen them all over Liberty, well outside downtown, like over near I-35 & MO-152 as well as along Liberty Drive.
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Spin is also headed to NKC, after Bird launched there awhile back.
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I can't ever imagine riding a scooter anywhere near that stretch of 152 with all the stoplights. Even the strip malls are a nightmare of people driving like maniacs.
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TheSmokinPun wrote: Wed Sep 08, 2021 7:54 pm I can't ever imagine riding a scooter anywhere near that stretch of 152 with all the stoplights. Even the strip malls are a nightmare of people driving like maniacs.
There’s a bike path width sidewalk along part of it.
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Has there ever been a ticket given for riding a scooter downtown?
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I feel like early on there were. Probably more than moving violations for cars over the same time period.
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WoodDraw wrote: Wed Sep 08, 2021 9:26 pm Has there ever been a ticket given for riding a scooter downtown?
I'd much rather see a fine to operators when they park the scooters in a row blocking the sidewalk.
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Man they're just so dangerous. I love the idea but I can't tell you how many times I've almost been hit at a corner.

It seems to me that if you can't enforce keeping them off the sidewalks, they're better to disappear. I spend half my time walking picking them up and moving them to correct places.

I hate these things so much
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beautyfromashes wrote: Fri Sep 10, 2021 4:07 pm
WoodDraw wrote: Wed Sep 08, 2021 9:26 pm Has there ever been a ticket given for riding a scooter downtown?
I'd much rather see a fine to operators when they park the scooters in a row blocking the sidewalk.
How do you prove they parked in the row? The scooters can be moved after they’re parked.
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