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On Wednesday the Everett City Council will consider authorizing Mayor Cassie Franklin to sign a contract with Bird Rides, Inc. to bring up to 300 electric scooters to the streets of Everett, Washington. Through the summer of 2019 Lime operated a trial program with scooters in Everett. That ended, and the Pandemic kept scooter programs […]

On Wednesday the Everett City Council will get a look at proposed new rules covering motorized scooters. Last year the City allowed a pilot program that put hundreds of scooters on city streets. The scooters went away for the winter but now are coming back. According to the briefing papers sent to city council, the […]

The 90 day pilot project with the City of Everett and Lime scooters is about a third of the way in and during a briefing to the Everett City Council there was one overriding theme. More education is needed. Johnathan Hopkins of Lime Northwest told the council that performance of the program has exceeded expectations. […]

Last month we told you about the City of Everett entering into a pilot project to see how Lime Electric Scooters would work in the city. In that story we also posted a link to the city’s pilot agreement with LIME and this link to the City of Everett’s code 46.80 that covers motorized foot […]

Editor’s Update 7:15 PM: In response to questions the City of Everett has provided MyEverettNews.com a link to the agreement between LIME for a trial of the electric scooters in Everett through Labor Day. Also today LIME announced a kickoff event tomorrow morning (FRI) at 9 AM in front of the Everett Performing Arts Center […]