Anderson may quickly have a fleet of electric scooters out there for folks to lease and use to get round city.
Bird Rides, Inc. reached out to the town about including the fleet, mentioned Andrew Strickland, the assistant Anderson metropolis supervisor. City Council voted unanimously to give the scooters an opportunity.
Bird is an electric scooter rental service that’s rented by a cellphone app by the mile. The e-scooters are merely left wherever the rider finally ends up and future riders can discover the situation of close by e-scooters on the app. The firm has added fleets everywhere in the world and that offers them a deal with on which markets can be profitable, Strickland mentioned.
Bird Rides, Inc. will use a native operator to run the fleet of 25 scooters and the operator can be accountable for upkeep and repositioning the scooters.
Users have to be 18 or older and the e-scooters can be handled by police as in the event that they are bicycles, since they want to make the most of the road, Strickland mentioned.
Anything new in Anderson has a honeymoon interval and that is no exception, Strickland mentioned.
It’s a great way to get round however the assistant metropolis supervisor mentioned he was cautiously optimistic since he would not need the sidewalks cluttered or for downtown to lose its appeal.
“At any point if the fleet is operated in our eyes irresponsibly, if they create clutter, if there are public safety issues, we have the ability to terminate this agreement completely,” Strickland mentioned.
The e-scooters will come to the central enterprise district within the subsequent 30 days to see how they do within the downtown space, Mayor Terence Roberts mentioned.
“It gives us another mobility, another way of having people move throughout our downtown,” Roberts mentioned. “With the opening of the hotel and the third brewery downtown, it gives customers and potential tourists a way to navigate through the city.”
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Sarah Sheridan is the neighborhood reporter in Anderson. She’d respect your assist telling essential tales; attain her at ssheridan@gannett.com or on twitter @saralinasher.