"scooters"

Your Monday, Sept. 17 Daily Primer: Killer Cougar Likely Dead — Scooter Vandals Caught on Tape

What to know, which Instagram to follow and where to shop.

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.

Is Portland’s E-Scooter Fad Waning? New Data Show Ridership Is Dwindling.

Numbers show a declining number of rides over the last week.

Portland City Government Adds Warning Labels to Electric Scooters

The rules requiring helmets and prohibiting using scooters on sidewalks are now on the scooters.

Scooters Break Oregon Speed Limits, and Portland City Hall Is Considering Fines For Scofflaw Companies

Last week, as a result of WW’s highly-scientific researching of scooter speeds (yes, we raced them) we learned something interesting: Bird is the only company with scooters that adhere to city speed limits.

Portland is Scooterville, USA. Love It or Leave It.

Portland is a scooter town now. And we’re on board. We confess: We were skeptical. A month ago, we were calling electric scooters “the next thing you’ll hate about New Portland.”

Three Scooter Companies Are Competing to Own Portland’s Streets. Here’s How They Compare.

Less than a year ago, electric scooters were Christmas gifts for children. Now they’re the next frontier in a big-dollar Silicon Valley battle to grab control of a new urban transportation market.

A Comparison of the Three Machines Zipping Down Portland’s Streets

Each company charges the same amount to ride. In other respects, they differ. So we measured them.

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.

Willamette Week

Most Read