Denver Business Journal — This has been Denver's summer of the scooter, and the city's sidewalks are about to see hundreds more as its residents trade in their iced coffees for pumpkin spice lattes.
Companies that make dockless electric scooters and bicycles have come a long way since June, when Denver Public Works was confiscating them from sidewalks. The city has since formed a Dockless Mobility Pilot Permit Program that allows as many as 10 firms (five for each mode of transportation) to be permitted to operate fleets of scooters and bikes, so long as they follow certain guidelines like providing unique identifiers for each vehicle, maintaining insurance and keeping them in designated parking areas so they don't clog the city's sidewalks.
Soon there will be nearly 2,000 scooters and a thousand e-bikes available to rent in Denver.
Lime, Bird, Lyft, Spin, Razor and Jump (owned by Uber) are all licensed with the city, and all either already have — or plan to — unleashed the maximum number of vehicles permitted by city law: 350 scooters per company, and 500 bikes.
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