COMPANY IS GETTING WARNED BY THE
CITY. YOU MAY REMEMBER LAST YEAR
UP ROGUE 'LIME SCOOTERS'
LEFT ON CITY STREETS.
NOW POLICE HAVE STARTED TO
CONFISCATE SIMILARLY GREEN
"SHARE-E" DOCKLESS BIKES.
GINA MANGIERI IS ALWAYS
GINA
H-P-D TELLS ME THE BIKES ARE
BEING REMOVED WHEN PARKED
ILLEGALLY ON SIDEWALKS AND
PUBLIC
PROPERTY. SHAREE WHICH LAUNCHED
SEVERAL MONTHS AGO, SAYS THEY'RE
ENTITLED TO PARK
AT ANY BIKE RACK.
AND THE MAYOR TELLS ME NEW LAWS
TO REIN IN ALL KINDS OF
RIDESHARE MAY BE COMING DOWN THE
BIKI PASSED THE 2 MILLIONTH RIDE
MILESTONE RECENTLY, WITH
FREQUENT RIDERS PRAISING THE
CONVENIENCE.
ALEX DA COSTA FERRO, BIKI
RIDER-THERE'S ONE OUTSIDE MY
APARTMENT AND IT'S REALLY EASY
TO GET TO, AND IT GOES STRAIGHT
TO MY JOB SO THAT HELPS
GINA WHEN YOU SEE OTHER
COMPETING SERVICES POP UP, WHAT
USE THAT?
ALEX DA COSTA FERRO, BIKI
RIDER-I THINK I'D BE WORRIED A
LITTLE BIT, I KNOW THAT LIME
AND A LOT OF THOSE GOT THROWN
INTO THE ALA WAI WHICH WAS
UNCOOL WHEN LIME SCOOTERS
SWOOPED INTO THE MARKET LAST
YEAR, AUTHORITIES SWARMED IN
TOO. THE DOCKLESS SCOOTERS CAME
AND
WENT FROM HONOLULU'S STREETS.
KIRK CALDWELL, HONOLULU
MAYOR-IT'S WHAT WE DID WITH
LIME, IT'S WHAT WE'RE GOING TO
DO WITH SHAREE
SHARE-E AS IN THE DOCKLESS BIKES
THAT HAVE STARTED POPPING UP
AROUND TOWN.
KIRK CALDWELL, HONOLULU MAYOR--
BOTTOM LINE, IT'S ILLEGAL TO
PARK A VEHICLE ON A SIDEWALK AND
A BICYCLE IS A VEHICLE
CONSIDERED FOUND PROPERTY AND
MAY BE CLAIMED BY THE OWNER
UPON PRESENTATION OF OWNERSHIP
PAPERS."
SHAREE TOLD KHON2 THEY HAVE BEEN
"...EXPERIENCING A HIGH VOLUME
OF VANDALISM AND THEFT...AN
INDISCRIMINATE PARKING
POLICY... SOME CASES OF
SABOTAGE..."
BUT THAT "IF A PERSON RIDES THE
BIKE, THEY ARE ENTITLED TO PARK
AT A BIKE RACK, NO DIFFERENT
THAN IF THEY RIDE THEIR OWN BIKE
RENT A BIKE FROM A BIKE RENTAL
SHOP."
THE MAYOR SAYS OTHERWISE, SAYING
BIKE RACKS ARE OFF LIMITS TO
BIKES WHOSE POINT OF SALE IS OUT
ON THE STREET, UNLIKE A BIKI
WHICH COME AND GO FROM
DESIGNATED DOCKS, OR BIKES
RENTED FROM STORES WHERE THE
POINT OF SALE IS ON PRIVATE
PROPERTY.
KIRK CALDWELL, HONOLULU MAYOR-
IN FACT I HAVE A LETTER HERE
THAT WE SENT TO THEM BACK IN
NOVEMBER OF 2018 THAT MADE
IT VERY CLEAR IN BLACK AND WHITE
WHAT THEY CAN AND CANNOT DO.
HE SAYS CITY OFFICIALS MET WITH
SHAREE SEVERAL TIMES ABOUT THE
RULES TOO.
KIRK CALDWELL, HONOLULU
MAYOR-WE'RE WILLING TO WORK WITH
FOLKS BUT JUST COMING IN AND
ACTING LIKE IT'S THE WILD WILD
WHEN YOU WANT, IT IS NOT
ACCEPTABLE
GINA: WHEN YOU SEE THEM AROUND,
THERE'S ONE HERE, THERE'S 3 ON
THE WALL DOWN THERE --KIRK
CALDWELL,
HONOLULU MAYOR- I WANT TO GET
THEM. I WANT TO GO GET THEM. BUT
I'M GOING TO LEAVE THAT UP TO
THE APPROPRIATE AUTHORITIES.
KIRK CALDWELL, HONOLULU MAYOR- I
WILL ENFORCE THE LAWS AND THEY
WILL SEE THE CONSEQUENCES.
WE SUPPORT MULTIMODAL
TRANSPORTATION. WE WANT TO COME
UP WITH A WAY TO DEAL WITH
SHARED MOBILITY,
GINA: WHAT WOULD HAVE TO GO INTO
A NEW LAW?
THINK WE HAVE TO LOOK AT, KIND
OF LIKE BIKI BIKE, WE'LL GIVE
YOU PERMISSION TO PARK IN
THESE AREAS BUT SPECIFICALLY IN
THESE AREAS AND ANYWHERE ELSE
YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED, AND THAT
YOUR SYSTEM WOULD HAVE TO HAVE
SOME TYPE OF TECHNOLOGY SUCH
THAT YOU WILL BE CHARGED IF YOU
PARK IN AREAS WHERE YOU CAN'T
BIKI CURRENTLY DOES NOT PAY FOR
THEIR SPACES, THEIR ROLLOUT WAS
CITY, THEY ARE FORMED AS A
NONPROFIT THOUGH A HUGE CHUNK OF
THE REVENUE PASSES THROUGH TO A
FOR-PROFIT OPERATOR. BIKI TELLS
ME:
ACROSS THE COUNTRY FOR
NONPROFITS IN BIKE SHARE AND THE
CITY HAS BEEN ONBOARD SINCE THE
BEGINNING."
GINA: DO YOU THINK YOU'LL MOVE
TO WHERE ALL PLAYERS IN THIS
COMPETITIVE FIELD PAY SOMETHING?
KIRK CALDWELL, HONOLULU MAYOR- I
THINK WE'RE LOOKING AT IT RIGHT
NOW IN TERMS OF SHARED MOBILITY
IS THIS IS A PUBLIC ASSET
AND PEOPLE ARE MAKING MONEY OFF
OF IT, I THINK THERE IS A COST
TO USING IT AND IT'S SOMETHING
THAT WE'D LIKE TO CHARGE FOR.
MANY
OTHER CITIES DO IT. EVEN IN
RIDESHAR, NEW YORK FOR EXAMPLE
NEW YORK CHARGES FOR THE COST OF
COMMERCIAL TRANSACTION. WE ARE
ABSOLUTELY LOOKING AT ALL OF
THESE DIFFERENT MEASURES,
WE'LL FOLLOW UP AS BIKESHARE AND
RIDESHARE CONTINUES TO GROW
ACROSS OAHU, AND REPORT BACK
WHEN PROPOSED LAWS AND NEW