E-scooters to hit the road soon
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| A Link e-scooter [Link] |
Fairfax County has approved two vendors – Link and Bird – to provide e-scooters as part of the county’s Shared Mobility Device Program.
Each company has been approved for 300 e-scooters. Each fleet can eventually be increased to 600 devices based on usage.
E-scooters can be used on a highway, sidewalk, shared-use path, roadway, and crosswalk. They cannot be operated above 10 mph.
Once riders reach their destination, they should leave the device parked in an area that does not impede normal car or foot traffic. Anyone who finds an e-scooter parked in an inappropriate place or left on private property can contact the device operator listed on the e-scooter, and the operator must remove it.
Link’s e-scooters are geofenced to stay within an enforcement zone while improving rider compliance with speed limits and no parking zones.
Related story: New ordinance regulates e-scooters
Bird has a community pricing program that offers a 50 percent discount to low-income people, Pell grant recipients, certain local nonprofit and community organizations, veterans, and senior citizens.
The county approved an ordinance in 2019 allowing e-scooters. The Department of Cable and Consumer Services regulates the e-scooter program through a permitting process.
7 responses to “E-scooters to hit the road soon”
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Great, what could go wrong? Lol
Exactly. As if drivers don't have enough to worry about on streets that were never designed for this,
Ugh. I hate these things. Most users never look where they are going, weave in and out of traffic and sidewalks. And when done, they just drop them in the middle of a sidewalk for someone to trip on. A menace to both drivers and pedestrians.
Also a menace to cyclists. The users just leave them everywhere. I have seen a few hanging through the railing on the 14th street bridge. Sometimes they leave the scooters laying flat down on the the bike trails. If I see another one laying flat on the bridge bike trails, Im gonna throw it in the Potomac.
Please don't throw it in the Potomac. Although I understand the sentiment polluting the water on top of this ridiculous decision won't solve this issue. Throwing it on the front law of your Supervisor would be more productive.
A beautiful way to have our retarded drivers remove some other retarded scooter riders.
Can't wait to have my 300 years old neighbor run her mint 1933 Lexus into one of these.
If people choose scooters over private cars/rideshare, I'm all for it…though they really need to be careful with how they use it.