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Which Portland E-Scooter Is the Fastest? We Raced Them.

The arrival of electric scooters on Portland’s streets raises many significant questions. But one stands out as the most critical: How fast can you make them go?

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.

In Cities Outside Portland, Scooters Were Banned, Thrown in the Ocean or Smeared With Poop. They Kept Going.

Scooters arrived in Portland in a carefully crafted arrangement with City Hall. That’s in part because scooter companies tried gate-crashing in other cities—and ran into trouble.

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.

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