E-scooter hire company Voi are finally extending the pilot scheme into far South Bristol, six months after they first announced they were about to. Voi scooters will be parked up and available to ride around a wide stretch of South Bristol, from Withywood and Hartcliffe across Hengrove, Whitchurch, Stockwood and the outer parts of Brislington.
Voi and Bristol City Council say the extended operating area will go ‘live’ on Tuesday, December 6. Until then, the e-scooter trial stops at the A4174 ring road across South Bristol, that separates Bishopsworth from Withywood and Knowle from Hengrove. Anyone attempting to ride an e-scooter in an area on the other side of the road finds it stops and is disabled, and - at the moment - there are no official areas for the scooters to be parked and picked up by the next rider.
Back in March, Bristol Live broke the news that the Voi scheme would be extended to two areas that it previously hadn’t been, ever since the trial began in October 2020. By early June, the scooter scheme was rolled out to a large area of north west Bristol, from Westbury-on-Trym to Avonmouth and Henbury, making the scooters available outside the previous limits.
