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There’s an Instagram Account Dedicated to Videos of People Destroying Portland Scooters

Potentially inspired by California-based Instagrammers Bird Graveyard, a new account, Bird Hunting PDX, asks Portlanders to send videos and photos of intentional scooter smashing.

Data Sets Prove Portlanders Are Welcoming Their New Scooter Overlords

To gain entry into Portland for four months, scooter startups offered something valuable in return: data, lots of it, and fast. The city’s pilot program requires scooter companies to share numbers—like how many rides people are taking, how far they’re riding, and where they go.

Meet the Portland Citizens Who Hate Scooters the Most

When the Portland Bureau of Transportation launched its scooter pilot program last month, it also established a complaint line. City employees fielded complaints and summarized them in a spreadsheet. Via a public records request, WW obtained the list of complaints sent to the city—122 in the first nine days alone.

Scooters Are Making People Mad—and They Might Spur the Next Breakthrough in Portland Transportation

But for advocates of active transportation, the whining about sidewalk scooting is a welcome sound. It puts pressure on city officials to accelerate their efforts to build a city where more people have ways to go car-free.

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.

Someone Started a Website to Track How Many E-Scooters End Up in the Willamette River

The spartan site asks in bold, pixelated letters atop a lime green background, “How many scooters have been thrown into the Willamette River?” above the current count: 4.

E-Scooter Startup Skip Calls Competitors Hypocritical and Alleges They Throw Dead Scooters in Landfills

What happens to scooters when they die? San Francisco startup Skip says unnamed competitors (which in Portland include Lime and Bird) dump theirs in landfills.

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.

We Asked Portlanders to Tell Us About Scooter Riders Behaving Badly. Instead, We Got Tips About Cars.

Last week, dockless electronic scooters arrived by the hundreds on the streets of Portland. These rental scooters have been the target of widespread ire in California cities where they’ve launched. So WW asked readers on Twitter to send reports of questionable scooting choices to scooters@week.com.

The Portland Scooter War Is Underway, as Lime Becomes the Third Company on City Streets

Lime just joined Bird and Skip to become the third company to be issued a permit in the city’s pilot program—which will run until November 20.

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