A fresh fleet of 1,000 rentable electric mopeds were released in Brooklyn and Queens on Wednesday by Brooklyn-based electric moped tech company Revel, the NY Daily News reports.
To access a Revel moped, you must download the app and sign up and pay a $19 fee to “verify your identity and safe driving record.” Rides cost $1 to unlock the…
3
Free to read, funded by readers. Join as a member and get a free gift.
Greenpointers has covered Greenpoint & Williamsburg since 2007 — community boards, rezoning fights, local businesses, and the people whose lives and work give the neighborhood its character. Local news is collapsing across the country, but we're still here: independently owned, no corporate backing, no paywall. 18+ years, 280k+ monthly readers and followers, funded by the community we serve.
Why your support matters
Now seniors crossing streets not only have to look out for cars, trucks, motorcycles, joggers, bikes, delivery motorized bikes, hipsters visually glued to their I phones, dogs not on a short leash but now these.
Can you spell accidents waiting to happen?
I wish NYers were as hostile towards private companies taking up publicspace as Parisians are. But apparently every inch of public space is for sale and we think its a good thing.
Another nuisance.