State budget OKs Pittsburgh’s scooter share pilot program

By Washington Examiner

Published June 30, 2021 12:00pm ET

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State budget OKs Pittsburgh’s scooter share pilot program — Scooter for sharing park in Paris, Tuesday, July 3, 2018. California-based bicycle sharing service Lime launched a fleet of dock-free electric scooters in Paris. Lime, which operates bike and scooter schemes in about 60 cities and university campuses in the United States, has already launched operations in the German cities of Berlin and Frankfurt and in Zurich, Switzerland. | (Bertrand Combaldieu/AP)

Pittsburgh’s scooter share project got the green light from legislators after language authorizing the city’s pilot program wound up in the annual state budget approved last week.

KDKA first noticed a collection of public electric scooters, manufactured by a Ford-owned company named Spin, downtown last November. But city officials couldn’t move forward with their plan until the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation OK’d scooters for use on public roads.

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