Lansing officials want to hear what residents think about electric scooters in the city, and have invited public discussion about the use of the devices and rules governing their operation.
Electric scooters have been appearing in various cities around the country with little or no warning, and with no chance of local governments putting ordinances in place to control them before they arrive. Lansing is working on an ordinance to license and regulate electric scooters when they're used within the city limits. When officials work on issues like this, they can use poster printing to designate the areas where parking for such devices will be allowed.
Among their aims, members of the city council hope to be clear that companies should not deploy their fleets of machines before they have a license to do so. Among some of its provisos, the rule would make it mandatory for companies to share crash data about the scooters; limit the scooters' speed to 15 mph in city traffic; make sure that the parking areas for the scooters do not impede traffic; and make sure the company has a customer service line in operation 24 hours per day.
At the moment, electric scooter companies are operating in the city under temporary licenses, which will expire soon. The fact that the minimal licensing currently in place is set to expire in the near future has spurred the debate.
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