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We Designed the Ideal E-Scooter For Portland Streets. Here’s What It Looks Like.

WW spent the past week brainstorming how to customize our rides. Some additions—like turn signals and rearview mirrors—would make scootering safer. Others—splash guards, snow tires—are our attempts to prepare for the coming winter.

Brothers “Admiring” Scooters on Portland Sidewalk Say Driver Hit Them on Purpose

Aaron and Jordan Miller just wanted some burgers. The brothers made a trip downtown on Monday for lunch during Burger Week, KGW first reported, when they say they were intentionally hit by a car while looking at e-scooters on the sidewalk.

Scooter Renters Hit by Drunk Driver on Downtown Portland Sidewalk

On Monday, a little after 4 pm, police report that two people were hit by a drunk driver in downtown Portland while attempting to rent scooters.

E-Scooter Company Skip Proposes a Portland Program to Give Homeless People a Hot Meal to Ride Scooters to Charging Center

WW obtained a copy of the application the company submitted to the Portland Bureau of Transportation on July 12 to be approved a permit. In it, Skip describes its ideas for community outreach, should it be allowed to operate in Portland beyond Nov. 20.

An Uncoordinated Indoor Kid Attempts to Join Portland’s Scooter Revolution

Last week, e-scooting arrived in Portland. For cyclists already struggling to share the road with cars, having to deal with a whole new vehicle in their lanes may be a hindrance.

I Signed on to Portland’s Latest Side Hustle: Collecting Electric Scooters and Charging Them at Night

By day, Ninh, 26, works at a Portland pharmacy. But for the past week, she has packed as many e-scooters as she can fit each night into the back of her Toyota Corolla—about six—charging them overnight at her Hillsboro home and putting them back on the street the next morning.

After a Week of Scooting, Nobody Has Ended Up In a Portland Emergency Room With Scooter-Related Injuries

Spokespeople from Providence Health, Oregon Health and Sciences University and Legacy Health report having seen zero scooter-related injuries in the past week.

Along the Portland Waterfront, Volunteers and Business Owners Kvetch About E-Scooter Riders on the Sidewalk

Susan West, 70, has been a volunteer with Friends of RiverPlace, a group that upkeeps the RiverPlace Esplanade, for the last five years. She says fellow volunteers and some waterfront business owners are appalled by the scooter rider behavior they’ve witnessed.

Skip Scooters Are Coming Tomorrow and the Company Is Handing Out Free Helmets Until Saturday

Skip announced today that it will be dropping off 200 scooters in Portland starting tomorrow. In addition to Bird and Lime’s existing fleets, that will put the number of scooters on Portland streets at 600.

Good Job, Portland: Only One E-Scooter Has Been Thrown in the Willamette River So Far

Last week, two Silicon Valley startups—Bird and Lime—each dropped off 400 new dockless electronic scooters in Portland. Along with Skip—which has yet to deploy any rides—the companies are the first to be awarded permits in the city’s four-month pilot program.

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