The scooters are back! A company called Spin, a subsidiary of Ford Motor, is pitching new and improved scooters and hopes to convince City Hall to allow a fleet of them on Dallas streets. There is no way this goes well.

To refresh memories: in 2018 The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) dubbed Dallas “ground zero for a nascent national bike-share war”. Five start-ups had flooded Dallas streets with 18,000 ride-share bicycles, the largest flotilla of bikes in the nation...

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