Op-Ed by Mathieu Fleury, Ottawa Citizen, November 1, 2021
The end of Ottawa’s second year of piloting electric-scooter technology can’t come soon enough for many.
Streets and sidewalks in the city’s core are littered with wayward wheels — a total of 1,200 e-scooters from three providers: Neuron, Lime and Bird. Abandoned e-scooters are, all too frequently, left by users to block shop entrances, sidewalks and crosswalks.