Sexton: Electric scooter riders face potholes and risk as crocuces and daffodils point to springs arrival
March 2, 2020, 4:00 am
The first time electric scooters showed up in Winston-Salem in August 2018, chaos ruled. With little notice, the Bird Company of Santa Monica, Calif., off-loaded, literally in the dark of night, a fleet of some 1,000 of the devices on every conceivable city intersection and block. Guerrilla-marketing is what the hip experts call such an approach.