In an interview with The Examiner, Peskin pushed back on Bird's claims that regulations made it impossible to operate in San Francisco, once more staunchly criticizing the company's conduct.
San Francisco's relationship with Bird, the electric scooter company that announced last week it was leaving The City, has been rocky.Five years ago this March, Bird, Lime and Spin deployed hundreds of scooters without city approval. A month later, Supervisor Aaron Peskin introduced an ordinance that, after it unanimously passed, required permits for micromobility companies to operate in San Francisco.
Peskin: What was my reaction? Not to sound sarcastic, but my reaction was that they came in as a classless, high-handed, bull-in-a-china-shop organization and left in the same way that they came in: Immature, incompetent and, as I said the other day, I don't think anybody had their feelings hurt when this bird flew the coop.
Was micromobility on the Board of Supervisors' radar before the aforementioned dumping of the scooters five years ago? As a matter of fact, Bird has significantly more citations per trip than Spin or Lime.
How would you characterize the state of micromobility in San Francisco? Five years after the scooters kind of came on the scene, what is better and what do you think still needs room for improvement? Five years on, what do you make of the fact that it doesn't really seem like Bird's relationship with San Francisco has improved all that much?
We talked a lot about looking back, but looking forward, what do you expect other companies to learn from Bird's experience in San Francisco and, in particular, what you're describing as a real lack of legislative tact?
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