Shared transport in the region not successful: shared scooter company withdraws

Go Sharing can currently be found in Beverwijk, Haarlem, Zandvoort, Alkmaar, Egmond aan Zee, Haarlemmermeer and Hilversum. A spokesperson for the company informs NH Nieuws that it is being phased out one place at a time. “We mainly see that the use is simply very low in a number of municipalities. We cannot maintain the operation there,” the spokesperson tells NH Nieuws.

He regrets that the company has to take this step. “We had hoped to be able to make more sustainable impact, also in addition to public transport.” The spokesperson says that the shared scooters that are retrieved will be distributed among the cities where the company will still remain active. “We will prepare another part for the helmet requirement that will come into effect on January 1. We can temporarily store the vehicles that we cannot store.”

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Local residents and entrepreneurs are not always happy with shared scooters in the neighbourhood. For example, shared scooters lie on their sides in the grass or they are left in the water. According to Go Sharing, this did not influence the decision to stop in these cities.

Ron Haker himself works in the two-wheeler industry, as he calls it, in Alkmaar. He is happy that the scooters are disappearing. He previously objected to the partial transport at the municipality. “It’s all a mess on the street and then they also let such a rental company use the public space for free,” he says. “This is not at all part of our country.”

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“I find the whole phenomenon very undesirable. They always get in the way, for example on the sidewalk,” Haker continues. “The largest share of tenants are boys who just ride around on it. What they intended it for, it is hardly used by that group.”