San Diego proposes sweeping crackdown on scooters as usage revives after pandemic lull
San Diego is proposing sweeping changes to how the city regulates electric scooters, including a crackdown on sidewalk usage, rules against staging scooters in large clusters and a ban on parking scooters anywhere but city-painted corrals.
The proposal, which was approved unanimously recently by the City Council’s Active Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, is scheduled for a vote by the full council in late May. It could take effect as soon as July.Some scooter company officials complained that several of the nearly two dozen new rules and policy proposals hadn’t been shown to the companies until just a few days ago.
The proposal would shrink the number of operators from seven to about two to four, while decreasing the maximum number of scooters allowed in the city from 11,000 to 8,000. Operators would be required to deploy a mix of electronic scooters and bicycles. And they would be more accountable for bad behavior by scooter riders and be required to give the city more data for compliance and enforcement efforts.
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