However, the utilization of scooters within the city of San Diego originates in our permitting process, as it's kind of difficult to restrict operations between the university property and the adjacent city property. Now speaking of university scooters were previously banned on the SDSU campus, but they're now back can certain areas in the city like on the SDSU campus set their own rules for the scooters and bikes, San Diego state, uh, university of California, San Diego can both set their own rules on campus for how maybe they geo-fence or if they prohibit them on campus. So in the downtown area, as well as recreation along the beach areas from ocean beach up to LA Jolla and then in and around our universities. And are they spread out or are they more clustered in certain areas? We tend to see scooter and bike deployment in specific areas of the city, usually where we have, um, a lot of employment. We have bird lift, lime link VO and wheels. Presently, we have six operators operating within the city of San Diego.
And currently which companies have scooters and bikes are permitted in the city. Under the RFP, we will limit the amount of operators from unlimited to two to four operators and a maximum number of scooters of 8,000 scooters within the city of San Diego.
Usually they make those decisions based on market demand and utilization. So that's in January and in June from as many operators who are interested in operating in the city of San Diego for as many devices as they would like to deploy. Previously, we have been under a permit process where our development services take in applications on a biannual basis. So right now we are moving forward with our first request for proposals, for scooter operations within the city of San Diego. How will the city make sure there aren't too many bikes and scooters on the streets? Yes. Now operators like bird wheels and Lyft are ramping up their fleets with new devices and more of them. Also with the number of scooters that are deployed, we can work with the operators to limit the amount of scooters around town and adjust the deployment to meet the demand and not exceed it. So in the city of San Diego, we're really seeking to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions in line with our climate action plan, by increasing mobility options, um, mobility options that are green and sustainable, low carbon emitting, and that provide convenient and safe options for people to move around, whether it be for work or for pleasure, or just running down to the store, like many new mobility technologies or devices, there is a learning for, for the users and working with our scooter operators to provide for educational information to users, to adjust speeds on devices for first-time users. Muto starts with the pros and cons of having these electric bikes and scooters for rent. You may have even taken one for a whirl, but did you know there's a permitting system in place that each operator needs to apply for Monday edition producer Emelyn, Mohebi spoke with the city's sustainability and mobility department director, Alyssa Muto about how the city is going to start limiting the number of operators and E devices in the city. You've likely seen electric scooters and bikes for rent somewhere around San Diego.
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