question archive How do you see the problem? Is it the companies or the consumers creating the negative externality? How do you think city governments should react? (several solutions are mentioned in the article) If the scooters come to Tucson, what impact do you think they will have? Should the Tucson City council or Univ
How do you see the problem? Is it the companies or the consumers creating the negative externality? How do you think city governments should react? (several solutions are mentioned in the article) If the scooters come to Tucson, what impact do you think they will have? Should the Tucson City council or Univ
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- How do you see the problem?
- Is it the companies or the consumers creating the negative externality? How do you think city governments should react? (several solutions are mentioned in the article)
- If the scooters come to Tucson, what impact do you think they will have? Should the Tucson City council or Univ. of Arizona enact some preemptive regulation?
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Ritz said the goal is to provide Philadelphians with options. Still, he acknowledged concerns about introducing competition to Indego, as private companies may be able to undercut the city program's pricing.
Perhaps an even greater worry is the fickle, fast-changing nature of the market for dockless scooters and bikes.
Ritz and colleagues had eagerly watched the rollout of Ofo, a dockless bike-sharing program in Camden — but the company pulled out after just two months of what was supposed to be a six-month pilot run.
La Salle University also had high hopes for a dockless bike-share service launched on its campus in March, but spokesperson Alyssa Porambo said the service won't return in the fall because the provider, Spin, has pivoted toward scooters. "We are currently looking into some options," she said. "We are very interested in bringing a bike-share program back to campus."
Still, cycling advocates are embracing the potential to bring a new demographic into the fold, said Randy LoBasso, a spokesman for the Bicycle Coalition of Philadelphia.
"There was a lot of chatter before they showed up in these cities that they might be dangerous, and we haven't seen any of that come to fruition," LoBasso said. "The purpose of cycling is to make an alternative to a car, and, like bicycles, scooters do that, so we don't have a problem" with them.
Actually, San Francisco trauma and emergency medicine doctors are only just beginning to study the health hazards associated with e-scooters, the New York Times reported. One physician told the paper he was seeing five to 10 cases each week associated with the devices, some of them extremely serious.
Despite such looming concerns, Squilla said he's anxious to bring Philadelphia's scooter-permitting process online.
"I hope it's sooner than later," he said, "because eventually they're just going to come in anyway."
