The at-times controversial electric scooter company started operating in the city on January 10, 2019.
Since then, according to Lime, 69,745 people in Dunedin have taken a total of 572,744 scooter trips. That is a total of 1,269,440km travelled.
There were statistics Lime declined to share — including how many serious incidents involving its scooters it knew of in Dunedin, and how much users had spent.
Dunedin City Council customer and regulatory services group manager Adrian Blair said in a March 2019 council survey, 57% of respondents supported e-scooter use, 16% were neutral and 28% were unsupportive. Many had safety concerns around speed, pedestrians and night use.
‘‘To address some of the concerns, DCC has been trialling a footpath courtesy zone where all users have been asked to observe a voluntary 15kmh speed limit. This applies to e-scooters, skateboards and mobility scooters.’’
Police and the New Zealand Transport Agency have been involved. When it ends, results will evaluated and reported back to the council in March.
Lime is the only e-scooter company operating in the city.
The council is working on a bylaw to encompass e-scooter operators, which will likely be in place by mid-2020.
If approved, the proposed bylaw would allow the council to issue licences to e-scooter operators. E-scooter companies would have to apply for a licence and would be charged a fee to operate in Dunedin.
There have been more than 4.5million rides in New Zealand since Lime launched.
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Just as many of Dunedin's notorious drivers lack any sort of etiquette, so do many scooter users. You can have as many rules as you like, muppets will always be muppets and the rest of the population suffers them.