Now that I have an e-bike, I appreciate the bike lanes even more. I’ve always been down with them just for the increased transportation options, even though I had nothing to use in them, but man is it cool to be able to zip down the street in my own lane on my bike. BTW I am not bragging, I won the e-bike. No way I’d drop $1k on one with my own money 
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I was in downtown last night and it was really great to see all the scooters around again. People were using them too, which was even better.
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I forgot to post this pic of a very festive Lime color scheme over near Santa Monica/Venice Beach from Monday.
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half Lime, half Spin? haha
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While in Baltimore, @GucciLittlePig and I saw a pretty simple way of managing the dockless scooter situation. How and where this would take place/best capture most of the scooter traffic is up for decision, BUT I still think it’s a pretty simple solution to preventing rogue scooters cluttering walk spaces. I compare it to the Citrix bikes and their stations, in my mind.
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As part of their proposal, Lime offered to mark up these sort of parking corrals around downtown (even provided a map of some proposed locations) - as to where they are with that or what discussions have been had with the City, I have no idea
Rode a Lime scooter to my house in Five Points earlier this week, as of this morning it’s still in front of my house - thought they were supposed to be collected and redeployed each night?
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Every city has plenty of small opportunities to do this sort of thing. Little gaps on pavement and such. Take these examples from the DC area. What else would you even do with these spaces? Certainly can’t fit a parked car there. All it takes is a little paint.
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Spin and Lime operate under a different charging system than Bird, where Bird offered anyone the opportunity to collect as many as possible and charge overnight with cash incentive.
If a Spin or Lime scooter has a relatively full battery it will probably sit there for a couple days, I rode a Spin home from Flying Saucer last week with a full battery and it’s still in front of my house.
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Interesting map. I can’t believe that there are only two proposed for Glenwood South.
Hit my inbox just now. Can someone get some pics up of these new corrals?
The Glenwood South district now has scooter parking corrals to help keep scooters off sidewalks. Along Glenwood Avenue and West Johnson Street, you might notice related scooter parking signs painted on the streets.
“Scooter parking corrals dedicate a safe place for scooter companies to deploy their vehicles, while keeping sidewalks clear for pedestrians,” said Barbara Godwin, bike and mobility coordinator with the City of Raleigh. “They also provide space for users to end their trip in a responsible manner.”
The Raleigh Department of Transportation recently installed eight corrals on Glenwood Avenue, two on West Johnson Street, one on Tucker Street, and two on West North Street. No parking spaces were lost to implement scooter parking. Curb space that was already zoned “no parking” was incorporated into the planned infrastructure. Fire hydrant clearance, line of sight and corner clearances will constitute the space that will absorb the dedicated scooter parking. A private parking deck entrance that is no longer in use will also be used for this new infrastructure.
“The addition of these scooter parking solutions is another solid step in advancing safe and accessible micromobility in Raleigh”, said Michael Moore, transportation director. “We expect the lessons learned with these parking options will help us and our partners at Bolt, Lime, and Spin continue to expand mobility options across the city.”
Raleigh scooter riders have taken 180,830 trips since the relaunch of approved scooter service this summer.
For more information on scooter corrals, how they work and a list of locations, please visit raleighnc.gov and search: Dockless E-Scooter Program
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Good, remains to be seen if they will actually be utilized as intended, though. My guess is that with zero enforcement or penalty for users who just leave the scooter in THE MIDDLE OF THE SIDEWALK, they’re just gonna continue to be douchebags. I swear - I went for a run around M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village District on Monday night and had to dodge THREE scooters literally left in the exact center of the sidewalk. I may or may not have violently thrown them to the ground in disgust.
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Is there any signage accompanying that corral?
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Kinda looks like a scooter is painted on the road in the box.
It’s small, faint and looks like sidewalk chalk. I’m sure it’s only a matter of time before someone mistakes it for parallel handicap parking or one of those take-out food pick up zones.
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Touched on it in the SH thread but this is temporary paint markings. A contractor will come but thermoplastic striping down soon
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I’m not sure if this will get the same treatment, I’m not convinced the city council is 100% sold on the scooters being a permanent addition to downtown.
This seems like a pilot program to address the flood of complaints about them being littered all over the sidewalk, but also didn’t want to eliminate them at the same time.
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I used to be super pro-scooter, but yeah, after having nearly run into them in the dead center of the damn sidewalk on nighttime runs, I no longer have faith in the a-holes who use them to responsibly place them a foot-and-a-half over to the side of the walkway (sorry to the non A-holes that use them, but as they say, 1 bad apple…)
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More than that, I’ve been buzzed on the sidewalk by morons driving them and had a guy fracture his skull right in front of me running into a curb and sending himself flying over the handlebars on a late night trip back from Glenwood - I had to flag down a passing policeman to help. I just can’t support them at all.
If we had more bike lanes the city could’ve created a mandate that only allows riders to use bike lanes and not sidewalks.
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