The Fort Myers City Council is weighing a proposal to expand the Spin electric scooter program beyond downtown to cover the entire city, despite safety concerns raised by some council members.
Watch Fort Myers Community Correspondent Miyoshi Price’s report:
Spin proposes expanding Fort Myers scooter program citywide
Spin, which launched its pilot program in downtown Fort Myers in August, presented data showing nearly 12,000 rides and more than 5,100 unique users through November. The company is requesting approval to move to “phase two” of its original proposal, which would expand the operating area to city limits and increase the fleet from 100 to 200 scooters.
“We’ve had over 3,000 failed scans occur outside of the current operating zone,” said Bruno Lopes, Spin’s director of government partnerships. “That’s about 25% of rides that we are not capturing.”…