Broken scooter bits in storm drains. Abandoned scooters in the metro. Scooters tossed into the Lachine Canal. Few could forget the wrecks of wheels and wires that littered the city in the summer of 2019. So disastrous was the introduction of electric scooter-sharing services in Montreal that the city banned them after only a few months. Now, they could be set to return, though with a much smaller range.
I have always wondered why the outcry that follows the release of the City of Montreal’s annual budget never leads to anything. Recently I realized that it is because it