Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Scooter pollution coming to town

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AMNY

 New York City is set to expand its e-scooter share pilot program to several neighborhoods in eastern Queens this summer, three years after launching the program in the Bronx with the aim of expanding micro-mobility to new corners of the five boroughs.

The city’s Department of Transportation (DOT) exclusively told amNewYork Metro that the expansion of the pilot, announced last year, will commence at the end of June across four community boards in eastern Queens, all of which are in reaches of the city with relatively limited access to the subway.

The pilot will extend from Flushing and Auburndale in the north, past Kissena Park through Fresh Meadows and Hillcrest, passing through Jamaica, Briarwood, and Hollis, and reaching down to St. Albans, Rochdale Village, and Springfield Gardens just north of John F. Kennedy Airport. The pilot area will cover about 20 square miles.

The expansion comes after three years of operation in the eastern Bronx, where 3.8 million trips have been logged by 157,000 unique users, DOT says. All three scooter companies participating in the Bronx pilot — Lime, Veo, and Bird — will join the pilot’s expansion in Queens.

“We are very excited for this summer’s arrival of e-scooter sharing in Eastern Queens following our successful East Bronx pilot, where nearly 4 million rides have been taken since August 2021,” said DOT Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez. “This expansion is an equitable way to bring a popular, safe, and environmentally sustainable mode of transportation to underserved neighborhoods in Queens, and we look forward to continuing our work with these communities as e-scooter share expands.”

 Here is where all these scooters are going to wind up abandoned. These neighborhoods have plenty of modes for transportation, the only thing that's sustainable about them is to sustain the bankrupt Bird which is run by former Transporation Alternatives CEO Paul Steely White. Like Johnny Cash sang, guess things just happen that way.

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22 comments:

Anonymous said...

What could go wrong ?

Anonymous said...

Never forget: YOU are the carbon they want to reduce.

Anonymous said...

The Electurds should lead by example and give up their city issued cars.

Anonymous said...

The quality of life is better outside of landfill NY.

Anonymous said...

I thought they were called "BIKE" paths ?

Anonymous said...

Dems should just start wearing a clown suits.

Anonymous said...

Democrats play Dirty !

Joe said...

Quote:
"The expansion comes after three years of operation in the eastern Bronx, where 3.8 million trips have been logged by 157,000 unique users"

Yeah "unique users" from the Bronx indeed, in this theme its "unique users" from Jamaica"
These scooters and free bus service turned City Island into a cesspool immediately.
All the shit from the inner Bronx came flooding in causing chaos, robbery, burglary, street fights and takeout garbage and drinks from the 3 seafood restaurants all over the street.
These bastards would even go on people front porches, plop down and eat, drink beers and leave a mess. A mob even beat a woman on her own porch for telling them to GET OUT your trespassing. They told her quote "FU..You rich white people can afford to clean it up"
--Cops did nothing but call an ambulance and make a report. This when they could have stop traffic on the City Island bridge and caught them going home.
There is only one road out but because they were black the cops couldn't stop them.
This is what free scooters, no consequences and free busses brings.
This isn't Holland!!!

-Joe

Anonymous said...

Floral Park is going to have even bigger big problems.
It already has illegals hanging out on bus stop corners drinking beer, bothering young girls coming from school. These guys are usually real drunk by 3PM ringing doorbells "you need paint" "you need pave"
The worst is actually the females with children in tow ringing the doorbells asking for money or if no answer they simply go around back and rob the homes, bicycles etc. They carry tape, put the tape on a small window, smash it then send the kids in to unlock the doors.
They are apparently professionals at this.
Now worse will be coming to Floral Park, Elmont, Fresh Meadows from points west and south.

Anonymous said...

Drill, baby, drill.......the scandal is that the media and Biden keep pushing EVs as a viable option.

Anonymous said...

Sure hope they don’t make gas stations illegal.

Anonymous said...

My E-Scooter runs on unicorn farts.

Anonymous said...

Happy Hippie said...
I plant trees, pick up trash and plant a organic garden in my yard.

Anonymous said...

Great news for east queens. How about the rest of Queens?

Anonymous said...

Hippies are dirty, and they stink like patchouli and farts.

Anonymous said...

Government subsidized, I'm sure.

Anonymous said...

@"Government subsidized, I'm sure."

Never as much as car owners are subsidized.

Anonymous said...

@ "Never as much as car owners are subsidized"
Is this from the person who gropes Walmart mannequins ?


Anonymous said...

When Certified Lithium Ion cells and complete battery's go to 5X the cost and uncertified get banned from entering this country, banned on eBay and everyplace else all these scooters will be found stripped.

And your still going to have the same amount of fires because the major part of the problem is the nature of rechargeable lithium ion cells themselves.

Anonymous said...

@Never as much as car owners are subsidized.

How about your subsidies? Talk about that a bit, loser.

Anonymous said...

@Is this from the person who gropes Walmart mannequins ?

Nah, he-she-it is the mannequin, groped by Soros-WEF-Globalists.
Think of it as Klaus "Nazi" Schwab's little Great Reset toy.

Anonymous said...

Didn’t Al Gore say that there wouldn’t be any snow there by 2015?