Lime rolls e-bikes, e-scooters back to St. Paul on Thursday

Frederick Melo, Pioneer Press
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The micro-mobility company Lime said it would roll its fleet of e-bikes and e-scooters back into St. Paul on Thursday morning, after nearly doubling rides taken on Lime vehicles in the Twin Cities from 2022 to 2023.

This is the second consecutive year that San Francisco-based Lime has offered electric-assist bike-sharing in the capital city. The company relaunched its fleet in Minneapolis last week.

Bike-sharing and e-scooter companies such as Lime, Bird, Spin and the now-defunct Nice Ride have dropped in and out of the Twin Cities for years with different services. The two cities joined forces and began issuing joint solicitations for shared mobility vendors in 2022, which appears have to have worked.

“Riders showed in 2023 that they enjoyed Lime being multimodal … with integrated service throughout both Minneapolis and St. Paul,” reads a statement from the company.

Lime riders took a spin on more than 960,000 of the company’s vehicles in the Twin Cities in 2023, up from 504,0000 rides the year before. A competing company, Spin, is also expected to roll its micro-mobility vehicles into the Twin Cities market this season.

Lime, in its written statement, said globally, 156 million trips lifted gross bookings to reach $616 million last year, a 32% increase over 2022, and more than 42 cities saw trips double year over year.

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