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Calgary’s dockless bike-share program suffered a dip in popularity in July, coinciding with the launch of the city’s electric scooter pilot, according to new municipal data.

Approximately 22,387 bike-share trips were logged in July, nearly 10,000 fewer than the previous month. Conversely, e-scooter operators reported 99,000 trips in their first month on city streets — more than four times the number of bike-share trips.

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Beyond the novelty of the e-scooters, there may be a couple of reasons the devices have been embraced so quickly.

“When you’re looking at shared mobility, it’s really that convenience and when you come out of your building or you’re late for your lunch meeting . . . more often than not you’re going to hop on the one that you see first,” said Nathan Carswell, program manager for shared mobility.

Carswell said it may come down to the fact that there are just more scooters available: Lime and Bird operate 1,500 scooters between them, compared to around 450 bikes operated by Lime.