Department Of Dumb Ideas: Swedish Company Wants To Provide Public Pogo Sticks To San Fransciscans
It literally felt like it happened overnight: electric scooters were dropped in various locations around downtown San Francisco. As a San Franciscan, we already adapted fairly well to public bicycles being available for a number of years, and the city moved quickly to make sure there were bike lanes on major thoroughfares (It's a not-so-petty quibble that it appears that Uber/Lyft drivers seem to think those same bike lanes are double parking locations to pick up fares, thus forcing bicyclists into dangerous car lanes). The scooters, though, are primarily driven on sidewalks, already crowded with people, the occasional bike messenger, trash, and well, even more disgusting things. And not to put too fine a point on it, San Francisco sidewalks can be treacherous all on their own with cracks, uneven pavement, and steep slopes.
So what would element would you think to add to this urban obstacle course? POGO STICKS, natch!
Earlier this month, start-up company Cangoroo announced plans to deploy hundreds of pogo sticks in select cities to directly compete with electric scooters as a transportation option.
Cangoroo officials said they plan to first launch their pogo sticks in the Swedish cities of Malmo and Stockholm sometime this summer.
After that, they would deploy the sticks in both London and San Francisco.