The number of scooters is expected to increase from 100 to 150, and the seven-kilometre route will also expand in the near future. The pilot had been on hiatus since November 2018 due to the winter weather. (Waterloo Record)

Talking point: The Waterloo pilot is being watched across the country by city officials, who are being lobbied to bring scooters to their streets by a number of companies, including Lime, Bird and Uber. The first version of the Waterloo pilot ran from October 2018 to the end of November that year. In that time, riders took over 18,000 trips for an average of about six minutes each. The short time period is noteworthy. Lime pitches scooters to cities as a way of solving last-mile transportation problems, such as getting people from a Go station to their houses; those short trips could indicate that it’s working.