Scooter hire firm Bird launches UK trial – on one east London path
by Alex Hern from Technology | The Guardian on (#42B3X)
US startup stymied by ban on powered vehicles using public roads and footpaths
The electric scooter revolution is coming to London, as the US-based startup Bird launches the UK's first legal scooter-hire service.
The company, which has already launched in France, Israel, Belgium, Austria and the US, is starting out small, however: its scooters are only allowed to travel on one path running through the Olympic Park in east London.
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