Just east of the shop-lined streets of Old Pasadena on Colorado Boulevard, a narrow storefront resonates with whirring drills and clinking metal as a small group of men work on a factory line. It’s not a scene you’d expect in the retail district, but the electric scooters they’re building aren’t typical either. An upside-down metal V with two teeny wheels, the Urb-E is foldable and light enough to carry. Which is why the scooter is being marketed as one way to address what transportation folks call the “first/last mile” problem: how to get people to and from Metro stops and stations. In fact, along with the Hoverboard, it’s one of only two “rideables” (i.e. super-portable electric vehicles) Metro and Metrolink allow on buses and trains.…View Original PostThe post Could These Little Scooters Be the Future of People Moving? appeared first on Los Angeles Magazine.