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Portland is a great place to come and relax. Here you can find a great cup of coffee, craft brew, hard to find book or catch a show but how do you get around the PDX area? On foot? Thankfully, you can now rent e-scooters when you visit Portland.<\/p>\n
About Portland’s E-Scooters<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n\nYou may now take a seat.<\/p>\n
Portland will soon have hundreds of seated electric scooters available to rent on city streets.<\/p>\n
The Bureau of Transportation on Friday announced it approved permits for two companies, Razor and Shared, to operate a seated e-scooter fleet here.<\/p>\n
The seated devices are the first so far in Portland, but at least one of the companies has fleets in eight other cities.<\/p>\n
In a statement, Commissioner Chloe Eudaly said Portland wanted to make the scooter fleet more accessible for people who might not be able to stand on the existing devices. \u201cThere is still a significant amount of work to be done to achieve equity in transportation,\u201d she said, \u201cbut the addition of seated e-scooters to our local fleet opens up this mode of transport to many more Portlanders.\u201d<\/p>\n
The scooters are also an option for able-bodied riders who would rather sit than stand. The scooters have larger wheels and wider tires, according to a city statement. Riders must obey the same regulations in place for other devices, including a 15 mile per hour maximum speed and helmet and sidewalk laws.<\/p>\n
Razor, a California-based company, may have as many as 525 vehicles. According to the company\u2019s smart-phone app, scooters are already on Portland streets. Tacoma-based Shared may have up to 200 devices, but they don\u2019t appear to be in town yet. Portland will be the first market for Shared.<\/p>\n
With the two additional companies, Portland now has five companies approved to deploy a collective 1,975 scooter fleet in town. That\u2019s still fewer devices than the more than 2,000 scooters permitted during the four-month trial period from 2018.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nRent Scooters In Portland<\/span><\/h2>\nNow is the perfect time of year to rent an electric scooter, or traditional scooter in Portland Oregon. To get started with renting a scooter visit Scoot PDX<\/a> or a scooter rental near you.
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You may now take a seat.<\/p>\n
Portland will soon have hundreds of seated electric scooters available to rent on city streets.<\/p>\n
The Bureau of Transportation on Friday announced it approved permits for two companies, Razor and Shared, to operate a seated e-scooter fleet here.<\/p>\n
The seated devices are the first so far in Portland, but at least one of the companies has fleets in eight other cities.<\/p>\n
In a statement, Commissioner Chloe Eudaly said Portland wanted to make the scooter fleet more accessible for people who might not be able to stand on the existing devices. \u201cThere is still a significant amount of work to be done to achieve equity in transportation,\u201d she said, \u201cbut the addition of seated e-scooters to our local fleet opens up this mode of transport to many more Portlanders.\u201d<\/p>\n
The scooters are also an option for able-bodied riders who would rather sit than stand. The scooters have larger wheels and wider tires, according to a city statement. Riders must obey the same regulations in place for other devices, including a 15 mile per hour maximum speed and helmet and sidewalk laws.<\/p>\n
Razor, a California-based company, may have as many as 525 vehicles. According to the company\u2019s smart-phone app, scooters are already on Portland streets. Tacoma-based Shared may have up to 200 devices, but they don\u2019t appear to be in town yet. Portland will be the first market for Shared.<\/p>\n
With the two additional companies, Portland now has five companies approved to deploy a collective 1,975 scooter fleet in town. That\u2019s still fewer devices than the more than 2,000 scooters permitted during the four-month trial period from 2018.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Now is the perfect time of year to rent an electric scooter, or traditional scooter in Portland Oregon. To get started with renting a scooter visit Scoot PDX<\/a> or a scooter rental near you.Rent Scooters In Portland<\/span><\/h2>\n
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