There were complaints of users riding on sidewalks, scooters blocking pedestrian space, and broken scooters left abandoned. To tackle these issues, and stem numbers, city leaders introduced a permit system without which scooter companies could not operate. The early “arrive first, ask later” tactics of scooter companies had perhaps riled cities, and they wanted to show they were in charge. Trotti, Poppi and Bird now have scooters spread between the city centre and less well-served areas outside the ring road. Lime and Bird operate in Tel Aviv, and according to one source there were 25,000 unique Bird users in the quarter to October.

Source: The Guardian June 18, 2019 12:33 UTC