E-Scooter Company Bird Pulls Out of San Francisco
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ย. 2024
- E-scooter company Bird says it’s grounding operations in San Francisco. The company said San Francisco’s regulatory environment and fines making it too hard to operate. Christie Smith reports.
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As an SF resident I hate these things
But I hate our supervisors more
Theres plenty of "hate" to go around s.f. now that we have all these anti -hate people running around this wasnt a problem just 7 -10 years ago
Keep voting democrat... I'm sure things will eventually change. 😏
@@arcademania7544voting democrat isn't the issue smartass
and whole lot of stores in San Francisco are closing down as well Westfield mall is closing down whole food store just close down old navy just close down Nordstrom bout to close down those hotels in San Francisco getting ready to close down
San Francisco is a shitty ass city now to many drug addicted and homeless almost everywhere in San Francisco lots of car be getting breakin into lots of theft
It wasn't a scooter that blocked my trip down the sidewalk in San Francisco... Multiple times... It was trash and drug users. But those we can't regulate out, can we?
This city won’t be happy until they run all business off .
Another good thing leaving SF
So they are complaining about the scooters cluttering the streets, yet they are totally fine with all the homeless and poop all over the street.
Right and thief
Downtown San Francisco is the worst.
San Francisco is well on its way to becoming a historical relic.
robbing and looting
Aaron Peskin was against bike parking for Baywheels and other services. He doesn’t like efficient alternative ways to commute. He is in favor of car crashes in his district
I work for SF and yes the city regularity makes it EXTREMELY difficult to get things done.
anything that removes these is a good thing
@@thechemtrailkid google bird scooter conversion to personal youll thank me later
So work somewhere else if u dont like it. no one cares
Bird is no longer the word?
i hate those things, glad they are gone.
Another company, like the exodus of residents leaving San Francisco. I didn’t even know Bird was available in SF, only time I saw it was in Frankfurt.
They're were running under their subsidiary brand, "scoot"
Home less been taking them to their camps and separating the parts to sell.
Scooters no good, feces and needles just fine.
So speaks a malicious government
He flipped the bird.
Their pulling their bird out of San Francisco
SF is a bureaucratic mess.
I doubt it. Looking at all the numerous government fails plaguing San Francisco, the more likely cause is the city’s failure to act as a business partner, and becoming a fine receptacle for any scooter blocking sidewalk violation. Of course if you are or appear homeless you can block anything at anytime with anything with no penalty.
Blocking entrances to businesses?..what businesses?...the place is becoming a ghost town....
Funny how all the fine dining and everything is still there. Only things leaving are places that were going bankrupt anyway or have 20 locations in a mile radius like walgreens
They're really dumb. Bird should make it so that people have to dock their birds or pay a surcharge. what makes them nuisance is the dumping of them indiscriminately.
Or people should be responsible. I know shocking concept
Scooter companies went wrong from the beginning by not investing in locking stations for the scooters. Less vandalism,theft and blockage of sidewalks.
People literally leave them laying down in your driveway, the sidewalk, in the middle of the road. Bird is annoying. Plus, it’s their fault. They’re marching when they launched said something like leave it anywhere. That’s what renters did. Bird was the problem.
Too many tire’s getting punctured by used syringes 💉 on sidewalks.
thats so fowl
This is racist
#SanFranshithole
Anecdotally I’ve seen multiple car thieves use these as getaway vehicles. Scooter companies are too lazy to conform to regulations.
You can't "see" something anecdotally.
I see what you did here.
Good for San Francisco. Scooters like those block streets and sidewalks. Doesn’t help that people ride on the public walkways when bike lanes exist in my college town. SMH.
The homeless drug addicts don't?
and crackheads doesnt?
Tents are fine tho
SF is just a small town and the streets are very narrow. besides the public transportation, we have taxi, uber, and lyst. now we have e bikes, scooters, and so on. it's too many things going on on the street and not safe for pedestrians. some of them have to go for sure.
???? Leaving before it gets worse
Along with thousands of former San Franciscan's
Must be a good time to be a removalist in SF..................
They came to Redwood City
Good! Never wanted you here in the first place!
Now 22 year old libertarian CTOs will have to find another way to be obnoxious.
Thanks goodness! What a nuisance!!
Is there a good reason to visit San Francisco? High cost ,low quality experience and crime rate
Update: Bird, as of last week, is out of business.
I've never had an issue with scooters blocking entrances or pathways. Alternative modes of transportation are so helpful. It used to be super convenient when scooters were scattered around the neighborhood... it made getting to the bus muni or bart station easier. I wish they were cheaper to use though. I don't like using the Lyft bikes as much bc you have to find a docking area and if you don't it's super expensive.
Whats funny is we try to mimic multi-modal infrastructures or bike cities liek Copenhagen but did you know once Copenhagen had free bikes laying everywhere. You simply used it and put it to the side when you were finished.
People in Copenhagen has more social morals to maintain their city in order.
What's lacking in SF is social decency to respect the law and regulations.
@@nz6241 You spelled America or the World wrong.
I would be annoyed back in 2018, but nowadays, the cost of taking a bird scooter is unjustifiable. So good riddance.
No company that wants to make a good profit should run it's business out of CA, OR, WA, IL, NY, MA, or DC.
Wow! What a condescending response from a supervisor. All these supervisors want is more revenue to keep their pockets flowing with cash.
I surprised that a big Mac in sf does not cost 20 dollars
WOW they haven't went out of business or got acquired by Lyft or Uber yet?
Another company seeing the light and leaving the Bay Area!
Many times I have almost been struck by people on these scooters zipping through foot traffic on the sidewalk.
The owners made a $100M off of the SPAC. So once again , l The smart guy fck the taxpayers
I thought they were leaving because homeless people steal their scooters. They steal e-bikes all the time.
THANK YOU. I HATE THOSE THINGS. TAKE BAYWHEELS WITH U AND ALL THE OTHER ONES
People dump needles too 😳
San Francisco is a beautiful place to sleep on the sidewalk, lay a turd on the sidewalk and share needles on the sidewalk, but don’t even think about riding a scooter on the sidewalk ☠️
Never trust a guy in a turtleneck. This way to get rid of competition that is taking way from citys own transportation 💰💰💰
The market is over flooded with these scooter companies right now. There’s no need for 5 different companies.
2 is good enough. Lime and Scoot or Spin
Once fine city is now full of Greed and abominations. Prepare for the End. Hallelujah!
As Gandalf said
Run, you fools!
Not much of a loss, I hardly ever seen them in the city.
So they gave them the bird?
thanks for leaving sf, dont come back
Don't let the door hit yourself on the way out.
Thank you! Now criminals have 1 less mean of get-away transportation! Somebody's grannies out there are happy, too!
What do you mean by that
They only go so fast when they’re not on electric mode (which you need an account to use), so I wouldn’t call that a get away vehicle
Scooters blocking businesses is bad.
Homeless blocking businesses is fine.
Happy to see Bird leave
The one bird that does need to fly the coop is pesky
Interesting that they're going after the companies that have scooters but they don't give tickets two regular cars
Too much human poop on the wheels?
Peace out, you won't be missed!
hallelujah
😬
Bird Gang 🦅 😂
Hahhahahahhahaha
Looks like bird has some people at the helm that don’t know how to work with City officials and are just acting like a bunch of big babies😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Everyone. Always. Leaves. You.
whats it like living in a place where you can't defend yourself?
I’ve lived and worked inn at least five cities with these things and some areas made sense but most of them are just confusing with no clear regulations on is it pedestrian is it bike is it a street transport. I was driving in midtown ok’d a few days ago and two people were in the street with traffic but not following any traffic rules, they were cutting around the driving cars to get on and off the sidewalk to get around lights into the road.
Another was on the sidewalk using crosswalks.
In Guthrie ok as a small redneck city, it’s nearly all preteen kids and older teen skateboarders using then to crash them into each other or drive off stairs and building railings. There’s also more brick roads and not clear streets or sidewalks for anything bike or scooter to safely be used so I’m not sure who thought it was even a thing to ring them here, but lately I’ve only seen them in one area so I think the city tourism group gathered them up and is now taking over who gets them.
HA!!!! How about fine the feral people who leave them anywhere and ride like idiots... FINE THE CREDIT CARD HOLDER!!!!!