The Baltimore Department of Transportation is seeking to extend the pilot program for dockless vehicles into the spring, as two new companies plan to bring their electric rides to city streets.

An item in the agenda for Wednesday’s Board of Estimates meeting calls for extending the plan through April 30, which has been agreed to by Bird and approved by the city’s law department.

Subsequent items asks the approval to add dockless Spin scooters and dockless JUMP bicycles to the city’s fleet of rentable two-wheelers.

Kathy Dominick, public relations officer for DOT, told Baltimore Fishbowl the new companies will enter the same agreement as Bird and Lime, paying a fee of $15,000 and $1 per vehicle per day. All the companies are limited to 1,000 vehicles per type.

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