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A community group making increased efforts to represent residents living in Seattle’s core neighborhoods including Capitol Hill and downtown is hosting a “public safety forum” on scooters Tuesday night.
The meeting comes as city officials including outgoing Mayor Bruce Harrell have said more must be done to address safety issues around rental electric scooters including dangerous sidewalk riding and haphazard parking.
“Scooter safety is top of everyone’s minds these days. Seattle has the third largest Lime ridership in the world and is well-positioned for prioritized solutions. Join us for a presentation and audience Q&A with Lime Scooters on what they are doing to address scooter speeding, sidewalk riding, and parking chaos.” the Urban Community Councils of Seattle said about Tuesday night’s planned forum.
On Capitol Hill, the community around affordable senior housing building Pride Place on Broadway between Pike and Pine has also been increasingly vocal about scooter safety and has called on leaders including District 3 representative Joy Hollingsworth to address the problems.
CHS reported here on the city’s efforts to paint more than 200 new scooter “corrals” marking legal parking spaces for the rental scooters.
Seattle City Hall is also hoping to hit the rental companies with increased financial penalties.
At a Capitol Hill/First Hill Seattle mayoral candidate forum prior to the election, Harrell said the city has issued “thousands of tickets” to the companies over improper storage and his administration is “looking for ways to get better behavior from the companies.”
Scooter Public Safety Forum
By Urban Community Councils of Seattle
Plymouth Church United Church of Christ
Dec 2 from 6pm to 7:30pm PST
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