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From: https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/messenge ... 6109e126c7Lime e-scooters riding out of the CBD, purple and yellow variations coming in
Lime electric scooters have been given the boot from the CBD.
Adelaide City Council has today announced Lime had not won a permit to continue operating its green e-scooters on city streets.
Instead, Singaporean company Beam and Australia start-up RIDE were granted permission to each bring up to 500 scooters to Adelaide for the next six months.
Lime says the move has left it “sour” and the company wants an independent review of the snub.
The council’s operations director, Beth Davidson-Park, said Lime would be asked to remove its scooters by Monday, April 15, ready for the new operators to move in.
“The first trial clearly showed e-scooters are a convenient form of transport, with more than
140,000 trips recorded and we’re confident that they will continue to be popular as Beam and Ride commence operations next week,” Ms Davidson-Park said.
“The City of Adelaide is glad to support the continuation of this trial and pleased to announce these two new operators, providing people with even more options for getting around our city.
“The e-scooters will be available throughout the city and the operators have also advised council they will be hiring local employees, which is good news.”
According to council documents, the two successful companies must each operate a minimum of 50 scooters and up to 500.
Four operators were short-listed following an Expression of Interest process, and each had to demonstrate how speed, braking effectiveness and parking now and in the future would be managed.
The e-scooter permit is limited to the city and is bounded by the River Torrens and West, North, South and East terraces.
If they go outside the geo-fenced area or into Rundle Mall, where they are not permitted, the e-scooters notify the user and safely slow to a stop.
The second trial will end in mid-October, which will determine whether e-scooters should become permanent.
Lime is calling for an independent review of Adelaide City Council’s scooter decision process after failing to extend their permit.
Lime’s Director of Government Affairs Mitchell Price has announced a media call at Parliament House in Melbourne to express his disappointment in the decision.
“Council asked Lime to make their scooters stop suddenly at the edge of the service zone, which would have put our riders and members of the community in danger so we drastically decreased the speed,” he said.
Mr Price said Lime had worked closely with local and state government throughout the trial to mitigate issues and provide a premium, green and accessible transport alternative to residents and visitors.
“City Council has placed 250 jobs on the chopping block, which is why it is imperative this process is reviewed,” he said.
From: https://indaily.com.au/news/2019/04/11/ ... eezed-out/REVEALED: Lime e-scooters squeezed out
Lime e-scooters will be removed from Adelaide city footpaths by the end of the week because the firm failed to enforce council-imposed geographic boundaries, InDaily can reveal.
InDaily this morning revealed that the council has asked Lime to remove all its e-scooters from city streets after two of its competitors successfully bid for the new permit.
Lime’s 500 e-scooters will be removed by Sunday and replaced with e-scooters produced by two other companies.
In a confidential email to councillors last night, obtained exclusively by InDaily, a senior member of the council’s administration said Lime had declined to force its e-scooters to slow to a stop if they go outside of a set of council-imposed boundaries.
“Lime’s e-scooter was not able to come to a stop when entering a prohibited or restricted area, it demonstrated that the e-scooter could reduce to a speed of 4km/h but users would still be able to ride the e-scooter at a walking pace,” the email reads.
“Lime indicated that it would not stop its e-scooters in restricted areas, based on Lime’s own safety reasons.
“This did not meet the requirements of the evaluation…”
The council-defined boundaries of the “geofence” – and restricted areas inside the CBD – that e-scooter providers are expected to uphold. Image: supplied
The email – which stresses “this information is not publicly available and should be treated as confidential” – says Lime was able to meet “the majority of evaluation requirements but (its) submission did not provide all requested information and so, together with the inability to meet the required performance in the demonstration, did not meet the requirements of the EOI”.
The council expects Lime to remove all of its scooters by midnight on Sunday, threatening fines if the company fails to comply.
The email says a press release about the decision will be distributed today, and that the council expects “media interest”.
The council distributed a media release after InDaily contacted the administration for comment this morning.
Late this morning, Lime released a statement expressing disappointment at the council’s decision.
Lime Asia Pacific director of government affairs Mitchell Price said:
“We are shocked and disappointed to hear Council have chosen not to extend our permit in Adelaide, after a successful trial resulting in more than 144,000 rides and 41,000 riders.”
“Council asked Lime to make their scooters stop suddenly at the edge of the service zone, which would have put our riders and members of the community in danger so we drastically decreased the speed.”
However, InDaily understands the council required the scooters to slow to a stop when taken beyond the geofence, rather than abruptly stop.
“City Council has placed 250 jobs on the chopping block, which is why it is imperative this process is reviewed,” said Price.
“This is a loss for the entire city.”
Lime’s 500 e-scooters will be replaced by 250 produced by Melbourne-based company Ride and another 250 produced by Singapore-based company Beam.
The council expects Lime to remove all of its scooters by midnight on Sunday, threatening fines if the company fails to comply.
Ride and Beam will begin distributing their e-scooters around the CBD on Monday.
The Melbourne-based company will be collaborating with local small business EcoCaddy and a local battery manufacturer as part of its operations, according to the confidential email.
Ride’s scooters are customisable and according to the email, “considered to be more user friendly than other operators, with a lower centre of gravity, rear wheel drive and brakes, wider handle bars and adjustable steering column height”.
It also met all permit conditions including geofencing.
Beam’s e-scooters also “demonstrated a high-quality product”, including:
“Advanced technological customisations for its product”
“Technical details on the management of e-scooters in congested areas and incentivising users for good behaviour”
Council director of operations Beth Davidson-Park told InDaily the council welcomed the new operators and that they “put forward a stronger expression of interest” than Lime and another shortlisted but ultimately unsuccessful company, Neuron.
“They met the requirements for on the request for (expressions of interest) on all points and therefore they were successful,” said Davidson-Park.
“Their operation, their equipment and their capacity to deliver was the best of the applicants.”
She declined to discuss why Lime failed to meet the evaluation criteria, telling InDaily, “that information is still commercial in confidence”.
It will introduce a lot more traffic congestion in the morning if traffic heading to the Topham Mall carpark has to go via King William Street.
How is using Pirie/Waymouth for the bike route even remotely possible without ripping up every car park and loading zone space on the street? Businesses on the street are going to go apesh*t.Nort wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 12:15 pmIt will introduce a lot more traffic congestion in the morning if traffic heading to the Topham Mall carpark has to go via King William Street.
Hopefully whatever works they do are relatively non-disruptive, Waymouth Street businesses have already have to put up with a lot of road and pavement works over the past 18 months.
You're assuming that they didn't? I'm a skeptic I'll believe the EW bike way is going to be built once I see it U/Cml69 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2019 7:58 amHow is using Pirie/Waymouth for the bike route even remotely possible without ripping up every car park and loading zone space on the street? Businesses on the street are going to go apesh*t.Nort wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 12:15 pmIt will introduce a lot more traffic congestion in the morning if traffic heading to the Topham Mall carpark has to go via King William Street.
Hopefully whatever works they do are relatively non-disruptive, Waymouth Street businesses have already have to put up with a lot of road and pavement works over the past 18 months.
How can ACC not see this coming?
You (and others) are probably right, but why play these games?
Adelaide Crows reveal plans for training building on site of North Adelaide Aquatic Centre
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The Adelaide Crows plan to demolish the Aquatic Centre and build a new public swimming pool as part of its plan to move its headquarters to North Adelaide.
In front of a packed Adelaide City Council gallery on Tuesday night, the football club released its $65 million controversial plan for the training and administration complex.
The building, located entirely within the existing footprint of the Aquatic Centre, would be no higher than two storeys and separated into three integrated sections – a new aquatic centre, a community building and a training and administration building.
The current oval on Barton Tce West would be upgraded to AFL standard, with a surface similar to that of Adelaide Oval.
Other ovals on the site would be retained and not fenced.
Crows chief executive Andrew Fagan said the club was offering a “once-in-a-generation opportunity”.
He said if the plan was accepted by the council, the club wanted to partner with another organisation to deliver the best possible aquatic services. He assured the gallery the pool would remain open to the public.
“We are not professional swimmers, we are a football team, we only use it on a casual basis,” Mr Fagan said.
An Adelaide Crows spokesman at the meeting said it would be a “centre for the community that celebrates the club”. There would be no permanent liquor licence at the proposed venue.
In June, Adelaide City Council gave the Crows permission to start designing concept plans for a training and administration complex at the council-owned Aquatic Centre.
Over the past 10 years, the council has spent $18 million on the ageing centre.
A new report said up to $21 million more would need to be invested into the site to bring it up to scratch. However, it would do little to improve services or reduce its burden on ratepayers.
Adelaide Parklands Preservation Association president Shane Sody said the centre and Parklands should be retained for public access.
