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How electric scooters took over sidewalks overnight

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Venture capital basically decided to treat public sidewalks as their personal dumping ground. Companies like Bird and Lime dropped thousands of dockless scooters into cities without warning local governments. They billed it as the 'micro-mobility revolution,' but it mostly resulted in pedestrians constantly tripping over piles of discarded, blinking aluminum sticks abandoned right outside bars.

How electric scooters took over sidewalks overnight
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