Lime, Spin to roll scooters, electric-assist bike-sharing back to St. Paul

Frederick Melo, Pioneer Press
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Lime and Spin are rolling back into St. Paul this season with electric scooters and electric-assist bikes.

This will be the second consecutive year that Lime offers electric-assist bike-sharing in the capital city. Bike-sharing, which hadn’t pedaled into St. Paul since 2018, returned last August, and there’s some evidence that being associated with Minneapolis helped.

Lime, previously known as LimeBike, briefly operated dockless bikes in St. Paul in 2018, but neither Lime nor the now-defunct nonprofit bike-share vendor Nice Ride Minnesota returned the following year.

A city council resolution notes that the city entered into a memorandum of understanding with the city of Minneapolis for a joint solicitation for shared mobility vendors for the 2022 season, with the expectation that both cities enter into agreements with the same vendors to operate similar vehicle offerings in that and subsequent years.

The Lime and Spin agreements, inked with the city and approved by the St. Paul City Council on Wednesday, allow for two one-year extensions.

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