In the age of dockless electric scooters, Florida has one more precaution to take during hurricane season: Picking up loose scooters to avoid them becoming projectiles. And Miami — home to a large proportion of scooters — is taking that measure seriously in the face of imminent Hurricane Dorian.
Bird, Lime, Lyft, Spin and Uber all promised their scooters would be secured, Bloomberg reported on Thursday.
The vehicles have yielded backlash in cities across the United States as people have complained about the scooters impeding sidewalks or generally polluting streetscapes. In Miami, the electric scooters became available last spring, with the launch of a pilot program Miami officials approved last fall, after the city had kicked out the scooter companies inreported in April.
An e-scooter enforcement task force has been launched in Los Angeles in an effort to ensure riders follow laws that include no riding on the sidewalk and no passengers.Russell, who tweeted about the scooters on Thursday, spearheaded the program, which other city commissioners opposed because of safety concerns, according to.
In addition to making sure the scooters are out of the way and that construction debris is battened down, officials have sent out crews clean drains, as
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