By the power of hidden anecdote, I dispel your 'study' and 'data'!

It's not an anecdote. It's a basic understanding of traffic in Atlanta, the geographic limits of the ban, and all the Covid related fall out happening at the same time. It's the equivalent of arguing that days are 10% longer due to the scooter ban. It doesn't need critical examination to know it's wrong.

You should try reading the article (and other comments), the data collected was pre-covid.

> We report an effect each day beginning the day after the policy implementation, 10 August 2019 through 22 September 2019.

If that's the ban they studied than it's even more ridiculous because it only applied after 9pm.

The following March the scooters were effectively banned before returning later that Summer under a new permitting process.

And you live in all of Atlanta I take it? Would you even be able to notice a 10% increase?

Atlanta is huge. It can take two hours at highway speeds to get through it. Most routes do not allow for scooters. I think it's obvious that banning scooters cannot have had impact on most commute routes. This conclusion needs to be more specific about commute routes impacted to help folks learn from the data.

I think they also need to discuss other projects which impacted commute times at the time. For example, major work on the GA400/I285 intersection began at that time. Changes to I75 and its dedicated pay lanes was underway. Those two routes are used by huge numbers of commuters every day and the impact was huge.

Atlanta has inadequate infrastructure that causes "rush hour traffic" on a tuesday drive on the highway at 2:00 pm. The city is not 21st century compatible if "value for time" is important.

I supported two offices in Smyrna and Buckhead for a few years and lived in Gwinnett initially and relocated to buckhead after. I-285 sucked both ways in Gwinnett, but in buckhead, i was going against traffic, which made a friday commute in the rain a 15 minute drive home in buckhead. The logistics are much worse now.

I did happen to be in SoCal when the pandemic started and got to enjoy their highways with little to no traffic. I think I was only in like 3 or 4 traffic jams the whole time, when Atlanta is a traffic jam mon-fri from 7am to 6pm'ish.

When visiting Portland, the commute south mon-fri was always backed up during rush hour times (just like the good ole days), going towards Salem. Inadequate infrastructure from the 20th century makes some cities worse I guess.

I would never trust myself to evaluate such a claim for my city with my experience and memory.

Wouldn't it be worthwhile to share out the flaws for people that don't live in Atlanta or really even cities with Scooters?