Melb’s E-Scooter Data Is Officially Out Featuring Stats On Hooning, Total Trips More Hooning

Hold onto your helmets because we’ve just received the official Melbourne e-scooter stats for the past 12 months. So have Melburnians enjoyed cosplaying as electric cowboys, or would they have preferred to chuck the e-scooters in the Yarra like in the good old days? Let’s delve. The data mainly comes from RACV, which has released a bunch of stats on things like ride counts, the purpose for travel and even police busts. Let’s start off with the big ticket stuff. During the City of Melbourne’s e-scooter trial period this past year, RACV reckons a total of 2.8 million trips have been completed on Neuron and Lime scooters per the ABC

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“I absolutely love it,” she told the national broadcaster.

“I think these past 12 months have shown how embedded the usage of e-scooters are in Melbourne.”

If you’re keen for more e-scooter news, suss out this bizarre story in which a lonely Brunswick e-scooter got towed away on a massive truck as part of a “police crackdown”. There was also the Perth man who lost an eye (yes, an eye) after being hit by a flying potato while riding an e-scooter. Let’s hope this never happens in Melbourne, or anywhere, again…

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