SANTA MONICA, Calif. — I wanted to hate the scooters. Before going to the Los Angeles region last week for work, I had heard about the area’s invasion by dockless, rent-by-the-minute electric scooters. (A group of people riding Bird scooters is called a “flock,” Mr. VanderZanden has insisted.) I rode them to meetings, ran errands across town and went for long joy rides on the Venice Beach boardwalk. In all, I took more than a dozen scooter rides, from just a few blocks to several miles.

Source: New York Times June 06, 2018 16:25 UTC