Winchester Select Board, town staff discuss performance of e-scooter pilot with Spin reps

Winchester residents may have noticed a few bright, orange scooters zipping around town. The new e-scooters are part of a pilot program the town launched Oct. 13.

The pilot, which the Select Board finalized in September, authorizes dockless scooter-share company Spin to deploy up to 50 e-scooters in town. For the past two weeks, Spin has deployed about 30 scooters each day, weather permitting.

How are the e-scooters doing?

The Select Board and town staff sat down with Spin representatives at the Oct. 28 board meeting to discuss the performance of the pilot program thus far.

According to data collected from SPIN, as of Sunday Oct. 27, 80 people had taken a trip on one of the town’s e-scooters. There was a total of 146 rides, and no one had reported any injuries.

People spent an average of 22 minutes on the scooters which, according to Spin representative Daniel Haines, was a long time. He guessed that people were likely using the scooters for leisure, or for running multiple errands.

Over the two-week period Spin received one relocation request on Foxtrot Road, where a resident felt a scooter was on their private property. Haines said the operations team went out and removed the scooter in question.

This article was originally published in the Winchester Star October 23, 2019. Read the full article here: https://winchester.wickedlocal.com/news/20191023/winchester-select-board-town-staff-discuss-performance-of-e-scooter-pilot-with-spin-reps