Scooter Share Program

Description

The City of St. Petersburg is Florida’s fifth-largest city with approximately 250,000 residents and 700,000 visitors each year.  With moderately temperate weather year-round, a great city-grid roadway network, relatively flat terrain, and great urban destinations, St. Petersburg is set up to be a premier walking and bicycling city and an ideal candidate for a robust Scooter Share Program.  The City has been ranked 4th for economic growth for Mid-sized Cities[1]  and 2nd as a Traveler’s Choice: Best of the Best Destination[2] in part because of our thriving Downtown and the many business districts extending from Downtown including the EDGE, Grand Central, Deuces Live on 22nd Street South, and 4th Street.  St. Petersburg has a burgeoning arts and cultural scene with popular destinations such as the Dali Museum, the James Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, and the forthcoming Museum of American Arts and Crafts Movement.  Currently, the City of St. Petersburg has one scooter operator providing seated and standing scooters, of up to 885 vehicles, with roughly 300,000 annual trips during operational hours that span 5am to midnight daily. The City has worked diligently to significantly increase its bicycle infrastructure by constructing over 120 miles of bicycle facilities citywide through the implementation of the City Trails Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan that was adopted in 2003 as well as the Complete Streets Implementation Plan, adopted in May of 2019.  In doing so, the City has made considerable progress in providing a network that allows people to choose additional transportation modes, such as walking and bicycling, that are an alternative to single-occupant vehicles and naturally supports motorized scooter use.  The Pinellas Trail is the primary artery of St. Petersburg’s pede