{"id":70624,"date":"2026-02-15T02:07:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T20:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/rental-ebike-programs-booming-in-australian-cities-as-e-scooter-moral-panic-sees-take-up-stall\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T02:07:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T20:37:28","slug":"rental-ebike-programs-booming-in-australian-cities-as-e-scooter-moral-panic-sees-take-up-stall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/rental-ebike-programs-booming-in-australian-cities-as-e-scooter-moral-panic-sees-take-up-stall\/","title":{"rendered":"Rental ebike programs booming in Australian cities as e-scooter \u2018moral panic\u2019 sees take-up stall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b6524ba85e6b380de41d8689108c08e0e70aaf0d\/0_1870_2953_2361\/master\/2953.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=ec980be5917ffbda9a5414f4a6ba53f6\" alt=\"Rental ebike programs booming in Australian cities as e-scooter \u2018moral panic\u2019 sees take-up stall\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">Rental ebike programs booming in Australian cities as e-scooter \u2018moral panic\u2019 sees take-up stall<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">After a fast kick-off in Australia, e-scooter hire crackdowns fuelled by safety concerns have seen shared ebikes pull ahead Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastRental ebikes are booming in popularity as e-scooter hire operations decline across Australia amid what some have labelled a \u201cmoral panic\u201d over safety.The ebike boom has been led by Sydney, where the number of vehicles on streets nearly doubled in 2025 as US operator Lime deployed thousands more. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2026\/feb\/15\/rental-ebike-programs-booming-in-australian-cities-as-e-scooter-moral-panic-sees-take-up-stall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts Rental ebike programs booming in Australian cities as e-scooter \u2018moral panic\u2019 sees take-up stall After a fast kick-off in Australia, e-scooter hire crackdowns fuelled by safety concerns have seen shared ebikes pull ahead Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastRental ebikes are booming in popularity as e-scooter hire operations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":70625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}