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Get ready for scooters, Seattle: Lawmakers approve new scooter-share pilot program

GeekWire

The Seattle City Council on Tuesday voted 8-1 to approve a scooter-share pilot program. Transportation Committee Chair Alex Pedersen was the lone vote against the ordinance. ” Lime and Spin are participating in a separate pilot program with King County in the White Center area, just south of downtown Seattle.

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Spin bringing scooters to area south of Seattle to join county’s pilot program alongside Lime

GeekWire

Two years after it pulled its orange bike-share bicycles out of Seattle, Spin is returning with electric scooters, joining a King County pilot program that has already attracted Lime. The one-year pilot program was launched in August and Lime scooters are already in use on the streets of White Center.

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Pandemic spells uncertain future for bikes and scooters as mobility services confront new realities

GeekWire

But today, Seattle’s shared bicycles have all but disappeared from city streets as mobility companies that were already losing money absorb the shock of the coronavirus crisis. Seattle’s newly vacant streets reflect broader shifts in the largely untested micro-mobility industry. A micro-mobility test lab.

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Seattle-area transit agency partners with tech company Via for first- and last-mile rides

GeekWire

King County Metro Photo) King County Metro, the transportation agency serving Seattle and surrounding communities, this week launched a new app-based on-demand ride service for public transit users that costs the same as a bus fare. Fast Company recently named it one of the 10 most innovative companies working on social good.

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Why Norway — the poster child for electric cars — is having second thoughts

Vox

I’ve been writing about transportation for the better part of a decade, so all that fawning international attention piqued my curiosity. Eye-popping EV subsidies have flowed largely to the affluent, contributing to the gap between rich and poor in a country proud of its egalitarian social policies. Norway rocks!!”

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Corporate Learning Revolutionized: eLearning Training Solutions

Kitaboo

For instance, KITABOO allows organizations to develop training content from scratch or enhance existing programs with interactive features catering to the modern learners’ needs. eLearning training solutions are a training method that involves the use of electronic technologies to deliver content and training programs.

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Experimental zero-emissions last-mile delivery hub launches in Seattle as a test for urban logistics

GeekWire

Both companies are participating in a pilot program for last-mile delivery in Seattle. The hub, in a parking lot near the Space Needle, brings together companies working in transportation, delivery logistics and food preparation to help solve the “last mile” problem — the expense and environmental cost of the last leg of delivery.