Scooters

The Council voted Tuesday to nix funding for Mayor Bowser’s ride-free program, but it added money for a congestion-pricing study, scooter parking and a new NoMa Metro station tunnel.

Electric scooters will likely be allowed to go faster in the District.

When Mayor Muriel Bowser announced that she was making the D.C. Circulator bus free to ride, she said it would promote transit equity and give people an incentive to ditch their cars.

The city has issued permits for an additional 735 dockless vehicles to be deployed in the District

Uber’s dockless electric scooters have officially hit District streets as of Tuesday morning, the company announced in a press release. You can access Jump scooters directly from your Uber app—they’re free to unlock and then 15 cents per…

The scooters are free to unlock and cost $0.15 a minute to ride

In 2016, the D.C. Council unanimously passed a law that reformed the city’s legal standard for who is at fault in crashes involving a car and a pedestrian or cyclist. Under the previous standard, known as “contributory negligence,” injured…

A bill introduced in D.C. this week would give e-bike and electric scooter riders more rights when they are involved in crashes. 

Get ready for more dockless electric bikes and electric scooters in the District in 2019.

WASHINGTON — Expect to see more dockless bikes and scooters — a lot more — on D.C. streets in the next year.

As District officials prepare to see more electric scooters and dockless bikes on city streets next year, they are also reflecting on what they have learned since welcoming the vehicles through a pilot program that kicked off last year.…

If you’ve spent any time in downtown Washington recently, you’ve probably seen one of the hundreds of electric scooters that, for better or worse, have become ubiquitous on city streets and sidewalks.

D.C. could welcome as many as a dozen operators of electric scooters and dockless bikes next year, up from six who are currently participating in a pilot program that runs until the end of 2018. That means the number of dockless vehicles on…

The District’s streets could have as many as 7,000 shared scooters and 3,000 dockless bicycles by early 2019.

WASHINGTON — D.C. is set to see a surge in dockless scooters and bike-share bicycles after a dozen companies applied for the city’s new permits.

GET READY to ride, D.C. — but not too fast, and not too many of you. That is the message the city has sent commuters with its updated rules and permitting process for dockless shared e-scooters. The regulations, which apply to dockless…

Mobility companies that deploy scooters and dockless bikes in the District are pushing back against new regulations for the vehicles that city transportation officials declared last week.

WASHINGTON — San Francisco-based dockless electric scooter company Spin, which entered D.C.’s dockless pilot this year with bikes but decided to pivot to electric scooters, has begun deploying its scooter fleet in D.C.

WASHINGTON — The District Department of Transportation’s new rules for dockless bikes and scooters starting in 2019 have ruffled Bird’s features.