Baguettes or deep dish pizza? When New York City welcomes e-scooters to the streets in 2021, will the new micromobility take people away from using public transportation or their own feet — as it has in Paris — or siphon them away from Ubers, Lyft’s or their own cars, as scooter-share did in Chicago and Los Angeles? In a world where public transportation has been devastated by the coronavirus, any mode share that siphons too many riders from buses and trains in New York could be part of an ongoing funding disaster for the MTA. However, industry representatives and outside transportation thinkers agree that the city’s scooter future looks more American than European.