They: the #BIRD #LIME and others of their ilk , arrived in San Diego in the Spring -for the Spring breakers- dockless, shared-use vehicles, #electric powered #scooters and #bikes. They took up residence on street corners like hobos but unlike hobos some, were paid for by a lobbyist - apparently LIME paid them to smooth the legal way to leave their #vehicles strewn about.
https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2018/apr/04/radar-limebikes-money/# . Local merchants are sick of them as well
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/transportation/sd-me-bikes-merchants-20180308-story.html
They started to get on my nerves because I could not walk down the street with my dog or go to the beach boardwalk with out one of these fucking things playing chicken with you. The people that ride them unlike WIRED article
https://www.wired.com/story/san-francisco-scooter-ban/?mbid=social_fb_onsiteshare are in fact jerks . I created a protest scooter and a sign went out to protest against them........I also wrote a polite #email to my city council to ask them to banned these things. My council member Lorie Zapf- also wants a ban. The next day or so this 'BIRD grouping' -appeared across the street from my house......the above photo documents a contingency of these devices arranged quite thoughtfully . It freaked me out a little to say the least kinda like that famous scene out of Alford Hitchcock's -The Birds where they have to pick their way carefully through a mass of vicious -yet monetarily still -birds.
Like I said in my title_ welcome to the #shared_economy -they share the profits -you share the #externalities .....