SF’s E-Scooter Complaints Have More Than Doubled. The City Moves to Extend Lime, Spin Permits Anyway

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Complaints about scooters in San Francisco more than doubled last year, with residents primarily frustrated by haphazardly parked e-scooters blocking sidewalks and driveways, even as the popularity of the electric vehicles continues to grow.

Amid these two competing trends, city transit officials on Tuesday paved the way to extend operating permits for two scooter share companies for up to two more years.

The city’s Powered Scooter Share Permit Program currently allows the companies Lime and Spin, both headquartered in San Francisco, to operate fleets of no more than 3,250 scooters each…

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