Of Scooters and Stalled Incoming Luxury Apartments
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A post about City Council members discussing Bird scooters and over 1,000 complaints in one year got comments going on our socials.
We’ve always found conversations about public space fascinating and warn about its disappearance as one of our main themes of interest. Bird scooters are for the public to use, but the distinction is that these aren’t free, but rather produce profit for a company.
On Instagram, one commenter wrote there needs to be “a better job of making sure scooters are not constantly left in the way of disabled people using a public sidewalk who end up having to go into the street to get around them and risk getting hit.”
Meanwhile a skateboarder indicated: “Yeah these bird scooters are allowed but I can’t longboard downtown? A bike cop threatened to arrest me if I didn’t get off my longboard smh.”
Meanwhile, on our Facebook there was a spirited conversation about the downtown Riverboat Hotel Apartments now owned by a California-based developer stalling in their luxury conversion, after more than 100 people lost lodging at less than $1,000 per month there.
Adam Sawyer wrote: “More long term greed, with no care for actual residents of Reno, "Investment Groups"just banking on a future "Higher Income" demographic to fill building. To them? No one who can pay less than $1000 a month matters, let alone needs housing.”
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