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March 17, 2020 02:03 pm

Lime is yanking its electric scooters from California and Washington due to coronavirus




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Lime is temporarily suspending service in California and Washington, as well as Italy, France, and Spain, in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic. The announcement came after San Francisco and its surrounding counties instituted a “shelter in place” order intended to curb the spread of the disease.


Lime may have little choice to suspend service in California after the Bay Area’s “shelter in place” order effectively bans nonessential travel “on foot, bicycle, scooter, automobile or public transit,” according to the San Francisco Chronicle. But the decision to ground its scooter fleet in Washington and three European countries, places hard hit by the pandemic, is so far unprecedented in the nascent micromobility space.




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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/17/21183202/lime-scooter-coronavirus-suspension-california-washington-countries

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