Yay! I really hope scooters come to Mountain View. They’re so convenient to quickly zip around without needing to drive and find parking.

People aren’t used to them, so there will probably be a spate of small “incidents” as people learn, but I’d MUCH rather have a scooter hit me than an SUV!

Not to mention, the argument about taking up space is a bit silly. A single parking space for a single car (carrying a single person) could hold a dozen scooters.

Why is this designed to be only a "last mile" solution? What about the "first mile", ie, from home to the train station or from home to Castro Street? A lot of local employers already have shuttle busses to take employees from the train station to work. We need a better solution for getting people from home to the train station. This is why the old bike share system failed. There were no stations in residential neighborhoods, so the bike share was essentially useless to local residents. This is a lot different from San Francisco, where I see bike share spreading out into the neighborhoods, even neighborhoods that are across town from the major employers.

Do they provide helmets?

Asking for a lawyer friend.

Yes the bike experiment failed so lets try to litter the sidewalks with scooters next... to everyone else they were known as skate boards. And how do we keep the kids off them? There is a reason several cities banned them including SJSU

So when one of these is is left as litter in my yard and I have to get rid of it, which parts go into the recycling container and which components go into the trash?

The previous rent-a-scooter operator ran up big losses and ran out of town. What makes these operators think they can turn a profit? They should be required to put up a $1 million bond for dredging. The creeks and the bay are the final destination for many of these scooters, unfortunately.

The electric scooters are supposed to alleviate a problem, but in fact and shown time and time again, they actually create problems, new problems, for communities that have allowed them in the past. Some of which have now banned them because of the new issues the e-scooters created.

Remember, they create more issues than they try to solve, and the jury is still out on if they actually solve anything. We know they create problems though, that's verifiable.

Woot! Scooters are awesome. I'd love to have scooters finally available in Mountain View and surrounding areas.

This would really make downtown accessible without having to drive for most of mountain view residents (and make parking much more available for those who do need to drive!)

It seems like the city needs to just encourage and support the market for scooters and bikes. There’s no reason for the city to financially support or over regulate any programs. Lesson learned from the previous bike share experiment.

Another wave of corporate garbage for tourists to endanger their lives with. Let’s be realistic. The city is pushing out the older and handicapped, while turning the city into a college campus. It’s not all THAT cool.

Gross! Disgusting!

I would love to be able to grab one of these after a concert at Shoreline to get home. But I imagine they may be hard to come by after a large event

I think scooters could be a good resource for people - they work great for less than a mile of travel. I see the biggest problem with where they get parked. Downtown Mountain View has a parking problem for bikes already and adding scooters to the mix certainly cannot help. you can park about a dozen bikes in the space of a single car - and probably double that many scooters. So, why not dedicate one parking space per block on each side to parking these alternative vehicles? Monitor and if they are getting good use - more than 2 at a time on average would be a win over a single car - convert more spaces.

We can't complain about scooters and bikes blocking the sidewalk unless we have provided an alternative. Having parking spaces also makes it easier to find one.

The amount of brain injury is about to spike in the Mountain View

Close Castro Street to cars and make a dedicated bike/scooter lane alongside a pedestrian throughway. Problems solved!

There is a good reason why these machines are basically banned in the UK, in that it is illegal to ride them on a public road or a private footpath. In other words, the only place they are allowed is on private property.

They will provide a moving obstacle course for all pedestrians, bike riders and vehicle drivers. It is bad enough having staionary obstacle courses, but when the obstacles can whip around at a speed faster than the average pedestrian, they become a hazard for all.

Typo, sorry. It is illegal to ride them both in a public road and public footpath. The only legal place to ride them is private property.

These will make the roads and sidewalks unsafe for all.
We are not SF with big wide promenade sidewalks, and even SF is having issues despite that.

It's clear the committee only heard the marketing side, from the company that wants to sell it to MV. IMO the committee needs to come out of it's bubble and realize what has happened in the real world and what will happen in the real world here in MV wrt these scooters.

It's a bad option that negatively impacts the greater many in MV.