e-scooters
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Sunset4All Celebrates Achieving Crowdfunding Milestone
Sunset4All, the L.A. County Bicycle Coalition, and Superpedestrian hosted a community celebration to mark their successful fundraising campaign, which sets the stage for a safe new protected bikeway through East Hollywood, Echo Park, and Silver Lake
September 7, 2021
Santa Monica Extends Pioneering E-Scooter Pilot Program
Santa Monica is planning modifying its shared micro-mobility pilot in 2020. The initial year has yielded plenty of data on how e-scooters are working
November 15, 2019
Councilmember Koretz, LAPD Announce E-Scooter Enforcement Task Force
Koretz' "task force" is essentially a push for police to enforce e-scooter laws, including prohibitions on sidewalk riding and multiple riders on a single scooter
August 22, 2019
Interview with Melinda Hanson, Bird’s Sustainability Chief
Hanson talks about Bird's life cycle environmental impacts, climate change, the Cruiser, and reclaiming streets
August 22, 2019
Atlanta Bans E-Scooters at Night After Drivers Kill Four Riders
Drivers, however, still may use city streets at all hours — even though motor-vehicle crashes killed 115 people in Fulton County, which encompasses most of Atlanta, in 2017.
August 13, 2019
Councilmember Koretz Calls E-Scooters “Anti-Vision Zero,” Pushes to “Get Rid of These”
Koretz expressed plenty of anti-scooter sentiment, but L.A. City's dockless mobility pilot remains unchanged
June 12, 2019
Federal E-Scooter Safety Report Raises Serious Concerns
A study released today by the Centers for Disease Control [PDF] was supposed to finally put to rest one of the most pressing questions about e-scooters: Are they safe?
Instead, we still don’t really have a good answer.
May 3, 2019
Metro Considering E-Scooter Parking Rules for Stations
Will Metro station docks work to manage dockless devices?
April 18, 2019
Eyes on the Street: L.A.’s New Sidewalk E-Scooter Parking Zones
LADOT has added dockless device parking on downtown L.A. sidewalks
March 25, 2019
Car-Centric Biases Show in Coverage of Deadly Hit-and-Run Car-Scooter Crash
Mainstream media coverage of L.A. County's first e-scooter death calls it a "hit-and-run accident." No.
March 19, 2019
