Electric Scooters Have Zipped by Docked Bikes in Popularity

Electric Scooters Have Zipped by Docked Bikes in Popularity
Track star and new Bolt pitchman Usain Bolt poses for photos with a Bolt Mobility scooter outside of New York City Hall following a press conference about the new product, Mar. 12, 2019 in New York City. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
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NEW YORK—Love them or hate them, electric scooters are everywhere—zipping along city streets and littered on sidewalks, to the dismay of pedestrians and drivers who must share the road.

And now they have overtaken station-based bicycles as the most popular form of shared transportation outside transit and cars in the U.S.