The City of Milwaukee has been paid more than $430,000 from revenue generated by the new dockless scooter program that the city rolled out earlier this year. At a Public Works Committee meeting on Wednesday, representatives from the Department of Public Works said that a total of 588,294 trips had been recorded on Lime and
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Lime and Spin scooter ridership throughout Milwaukee. Map from City of Milwaukee[/caption]
Lime scooters accounted for 89% of this year’s rides, while Spin scooters only accounted for 11%, according to DPW data. These percentages track with nationwide data, Roder said.
While downtown and the East Side continue to have the highest concentration of riders, the greatest increase in rides occurred on the far north, west and south sides of the city, with those areas seeing a 142% increase between 2023 and 2024.
Given the high demand for the electric scooters, the city and its program partners could deploy more scooters, but DPW staff said adding more scooters without making streets and sidewalks "awash" in scooters is a "balancing act that we’re constantly discussing.”
Proper parking of scooters has also been improving. 92% of scooters were properly parked in August compared to 83% in June.
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