As students return to the University of Missouri for the fall semester, electric scooters available for rental through the Bird app have vanished from sidewalks.

Jimmy Gilman, Bird’s director of partnership and policy, confirmed that the company has paused deployment of e-scooters at the moment. Bird is looking to bring on a new local manager for the system, resulting in the pause.

The transportation company has ceased operations in a number of cities around the United States. Bird cited tariffs related to vehicle shipments and allocation such as in Grand Junction, Colorado, last week. A Facebook announcement by the city of Oswego, New York, in May said that Bird scooters were removed from city limits without notice from the company.

The city of Columbia and Mizzou have partnered with B

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