Beryl e-scooters at Boscombe Pier THERE have been "very few" incidents involving Beryl hire e-scooters since their launch in Bournemouth and Poole, according to the scheme's operators. The BCP Council and Beryl e-scooter trial has been in operation for six weeks, with more than 45,000 miles travelled across 8,000 journeys by 4,290 individual riders. The local authority said that despite concerns about the roll out, there had been limited issues and the scheme had been "incredibly popular". Martin Jolly, operations lead for Beryl in the BCP area, said end of trip surveys, sent to a rider’s app upon completion of the trip, showed that 15.3 per cent of respondents said they would have otherwise taken a car.