What happened to Lime scooters in Fresno?

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Electric scooters are readily disposable crossed a fig of California cities: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Berkeley and San Diego each person Lime scooters disposable to rent. Fresno was expected to beryllium portion of that group, but what happened?

Back successful 2019, the Fresno City Council unanimously approved a six-month aviator programme with scooter institution Lime, with the program to restrict scooter usage to locations specified arsenic Fresno State, Fresno City College and Fashion Fair.

So what happened next?

Lime says the program to bring its scooters to Fresno was "indefinitely postponed" owed to the timing of the launch, which was planned for aboriginal 2020. The coronavirus pandemic, which began that aforesaid year, prompted Lime to intermission services worldwide arsenic everyone rapidly adjusted to societal distancing and distant working.

A Lime scooter connected a Los Angeles sidewalk, pictured successful April 2025.

"Since past we person adjusted our enlargement strategy to absorption connected much regional-based approaches, which allows america to run astatine a precocious modular that has contributed to our fiscal and operational success successful caller years," said Charlie Mastoloni, Senior Manager of Government Relations astatine Lime.

During the aviator program, Lime had plans to bring 500 scooters to Fresno by October 2019.

But Lime has not closed the doorway connected coming backmost to Fresno, adding that "in the future, we would emotion to instrumentality to service the metropolis and the broader region."