So what happens to the “Lime” scooters – The popular electric scooter rentalsthat used to see around Saint Paul?
When you remember that st paul is “Chicago on the Mississippi“, the answer pretty much sorts itself out:
Among the details, Lime will pay the city a trip fee of 10 cents per trip for every trip that begins or ends within the city. Those fees are paid to St. Paul on a monthly basis.
In addition to regular trip fees, Lime will pay a “park impact fee” of 20 cents per scooter for all trips that begin or end on city parkland. The city will also be reimbursed for staff time spent relocating or removing scooters from prohibited locations, at the rate of $35 per scooter, as well as a $20-per-day storage rate at the city’s Dale Street Public Works facility.
Everything in St. Paul must transfer money from the productive parts – the few that are left – to the government.
This Chicago that St Paul wants to be… really?
Besides, don’t the Cities already encourage the immigration of 10s if not 100s of Chicago residents to its fair streets? You know, ones who might be arrested on sight if they were to go back?
Fearless prediction:
The cost of replacing stolen scooters ends this venture after the first year.
Oh, they’ll know where to find the stolen scooters, but reclaiming them is likely to cost your life.
3-4 years ago, my Highland Park neighbor had side gig thing going with her high school daughter. They would drive around town picking up scooters in their mini van, charge them in their garage, and setting them back out on street corners.
I asked her if she had additional insurance on her simple one car garage with simple wiring, in back of her 1920’s stucco bungalow, she said no.
I asked her if she had told her auto insurance company that she was doing side gig work doing this, she said no.
She said with those extra costs, you barely would make any money.
Will the media ever run a story on this?
Will the media ever run a story on this?
Given that the media are the voice of the NIMBY class?
Taxes aren’t helpful on those scooters, but neither is the fact that in Rochester, the company that owns them keeps charging you for them long after you’ve stopped using it. My daughter learned that one…