Last revised: 2/21/2021
Latest additions marked NEW>
Local Government Responses to Scooters -
By State and City
AL (state law on e-scooters)
- Birmingham
- Get ready to ride…again! Electric bikes + scooters are back in Birmingham (11/10/2020) (new ordinance) (Gotcha & Veo)
AR (state law on e-scooters)
- Little Rock
- Little Rock board approves rule tweaks, revenue collection on scooters (12/2/2020) (banned from certain neighborhoods, one rider only, helmets required for operators under 18)
- Little Rock Partners With E-Scooter Company To Launch Pilot Program (12/24/2018)
AZ (state law on e-scooters)
- Peoria
- Ordinance authorizing pilot program (12/9/2018)
- Flying the coop: Bird scooters to no longer fly in Peoria after negotiations end (1/24/2019) (A key issue between city and scooter company was the allocation of risk and exposure to liability and law suits.)
- Scooters to be removed from Glendale (2/11/2019)
- Ordinance authorizing pilot program (12/9/2018)
- Phoenix
- New Fees and Ordinance to be Proposed in Feb. 2019
- After Complying With City Rules, Lime Scooters Will Return to Downtown Phoenix (9/25/2019)
- Where'd All The Scooters Go? 3 Days Into Pilot Program, Bird And Lime Disappear From Phoenix (9/23/2019)
- Phoenix Prepares For Downtown Scooters, Hires Retrieval Company (9/5/2019)
- E-scooters launch mid-September in downtown Phoenix (8/26/2019)
- Love 'Em or Hate 'Em, Electric Scooters Could Soon Come to Downtown Phoenix (1/19/2019)
- New Fees and Ordinance to be Proposed in Feb. 2019
- Scottsdale
- Ordinance (11/13/2018)
- Tempe
- Resolution establishing licensing program li (1/10/2019)
- Terms and conditions of license (1/10/2019)
- Tucson
- E- Scooter Pilot Program (launched 9/12/2019)
- E-scooter parking now available along 4th Avenue (1/24/2020)
- E-Scooter Companies Work to Revise Rules Amid Complaints (1/9/2020)
- UA, TDOT partner for e-scooter research projects (12/9/2019)
- Tucson City Council tells companies to solve e-scooter problems in neighborhoods (12/4/2019)
- Lessons from Tempe: City explains e-scooter regulations (9/9/2019)
- Rental electric scooters will slowly stop if rider enters UA campus (9/9/2019)
- E- Scooter Pilot Program (launched 9/12/2019)
CA (state law on e-scooters)
- Bakersfield
- Bird scooters are back. Are they here to stay? (12/24/2020)
- Berkeley
- Requires all firms offering transportation services to have a franchise agreement with the city (in addition to a business license). As of late summer 2018 no scooter company had been granted one. After shared bikes, scooters: Berkeley wrestles with how to handle them (8/14/2018)
- In 2019 it invited applications to participate in a pilot
- Long Beach
- E-scooter share program
- Long Beach is losing (lots of) money every month that it doesn’t regulate e-scooters (1/29/2019) (because it charges no fee)
- E-scooter share program
- Los Angeles
- Where did all the scooters go? (3/2/2020)
- L.A. wins appeal in fight with Uber over scooter and bike data (1/11/2020)
- Uber Challenges Los Angeles’s Suspension of Its Scooters (11/14/2019)
- L.A. Wants to Know Where Scooter Commuters Are Going. Uber Says That’s Government Surveillance (11/5/2019)
- Uber sues LA in bid to protect scooter riders’ geolocation data (10/30/2019)
- Los Angeles Suspends Uber’s Scooters Over Data Fight (10/30/2019)
- UCLA Transportation agreement with e-scooter companies to impose new restrictions (9/15/2019)
- A Controversial Scooter Data Tracking Program Gains Traction (8/23/2019)
- LAPD Launches Task Force To Crack Down On Scooters (8/22/2019)
- As scooters flood Los Angeles, the number of tickets written to riders is soaring (8/23/2019)
- These Sidewalk Stencils Aim To Curb LA Scooter Scofflaws' Bad Riding (8/2/2019)
- E-scooters now seem less likely to run people off sidewalks (7/20/2019)
- Los Angeles County:
- Oakland
- Ordinance (9/17/2018)
- Developments:
- Coronavirus: Lyft pulls electric scooters out of San Jose, Oakland (4/30/2020)
- Oakland OKs 3,500 rental e-scooters from Bird, Lime, Lyft, Clevr (7/2/2019)
- OakDOT Announces Permits for Shared E-Scooters (7/10/2019)
- Mobility and Equity: How Oakland is getting scooter regulation right — and changing the complexion of urban transportation (7/17/2019)
- Sacramento
- Ordinance (4/2/2019)
- Regulations (4/25/2019)
- Developments:
- Electric scooters make quiet return to Sacramento (6/23/2020)
- Riding an e-scooter on the sidewalk in Sacramento could now cost you $207 (11/19/2019)
- Sacramento now has 2 electric scooter options. What’s the difference between Jump and Lime? (7/31/2019)
- Scooters can help Sacramento’s traffic and air. Are you riding them correctly? (7/25/2019)
- San Diego
- City Council Passes Dockless Scooter Rules (5/10/2019)
- Shared mobility devices ordinance (5/17/2019)
- Fees (4/26/2019)
- Rules and regulations
- Bicycle and scooter sharing
- Developments:
- Scooters nearly went extinct in San Diego due to COVID-19. Now use is climbing again (8/27/2020)
- San Diego preps to enforce scooter boardwalk ban (2/20/2020)
- New Polls Show San Diegans Want Stricter Regs on Scooters, Oppose Bike Lanes in Exchange for Loss of Parking (1/13/2020)
- San Diego bans e-scooters along the boardwalk from Mission Beach to La Jolla (12/16/2019)
- Lime Scooters Aren’t Going Anywhere, City Loses Battle To Revoke Operating Permit [for ineffective implementation of geofencing] (12/6/2019)
- San Diego proposes midnight curfew, other rule changes for dockless e-scooters (11/20/2019)
- Scooter Frustrations and Sharp Ridership Falloff (10/26/2019) (Is it more stringent regulation or a seasonal drop?)
- New rules shaping scooter use in San Diego (10/10/2019)
- Welcome to San Diego. Don’t Mind the Scooters. (9/16/2019)
- Jump out of San Diego citing rules (9/12/2019)
- City releases online map of all electric scooter corrals (9/27/2019) (map)
- City impounds 2,500 scooters during Comic-Con weekend (7/22/2019)
- San Diego Mayor: Scooter companies caught violating speed rules (7/19/2019)
- Deadline reached for San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer's scooter company ultimatum (7/30/2019)
- The Battle Over Scooter Impound In San Diego May Help Cities Improve Scooter Hygiene (7/30/2019)
- City Council Passes Dockless Scooter Rules (5/10/2019)
- San Francisco
- Ordinances and SFMTA rules:
- Parking (1/9/2018)
- Powered Scooter Share Program (4/24/2018)
- Moving Down the Road With E Scooters (9/25/2019)
- Developments:
- NEW>Lime launches new fleet of adaptive e-scooters in San Francisco (2/18/2021) (3 wheeled with and without seats)
- NEW>New era for SF scooters: Companies to get longer permits, stricter rules (1/19/2021)
- NEW>Lime adding 1,000 S.F. scooters after city approval (11/23/2020)
- NEW>S.F. to add 500 more scooters while seeking changes to permit program (1/15/2021)
- E-Scooter Companies Scoot, Lime, and Jump Halt Operations in SF; Spin Continues Running (3/22/2020)
- Rogue SF e-scooter company says it’s back in business. Not so fast, city officials say (1/10/2020)
- S.F. city attorney orders rebel e-scooter company to shut down immediately (1/8/2020)
- Hundreds more scooters to zip down SF streets (12/14/2019)
- SF wants startups to behave, so why did it reject the ‘nice guy’ of e-scooters? (12/13/2019)
- Uber, Spin, and Lime scooters are now legal in San Francisco, but Skip is out (10/15/2019)
- How Lime, Scoot, JUMP and Spin plan to deploy adaptive scooters (10/2/2019)
- Jump, Lime, Scoot, Spin to operate scooters in SF, but not all in city are happy about it (9/25/2019)
- The next great wave of scooters could soon roll into SF (8/23/2019)
- Scooter start-up (Scoot) promised to serve a whole city. Then it cut out two poor areas (8/15/2019)
- Bird, Not authorized for shared scooter rental in San Francisco to offer individual monthly rentals in the city
- SF to Boost E-Scooter Rentals to 1,600, with Option to Grow to 2,500 (4/15/2019)
- Electric Scooter Fleets to Double in San Francisco (but must be lockable) (4/15/2019)
- Lime loses appeal to operate electric scooters in SF (2/13/2019)
- MTA decision gives Spin hope for e-scooter future in SF (1/30/2019)
- Ordinances and SFMTA rules:
- San Jose
- San Marino
- City to Devise Rules of the Road for E-Scooters (1/24/2019)
- Santa Monica – Shared Mobility Pilot Program
- Ordinance (9/11/2018)
- Program Rules (9/25/2018)
- Developments:
- Lime leaves Santa Monica permanently, other scooter companies continue operation (4/29/2020)
- Shared Mobility Pilot Program Summary Report (11/2019) (account of the report)
- Did your rented e-scooter suddenly shut down? Blame the invisible geofence (9/17/2019)
- Long Beach is losing (lots of) money every month that it doesn’t regulate e-scooters (1/29/2019) (describes the Santa Monica fee structure)
CO (state law on e-scooters)
- Boulder –
- Moratorium:
- Developments:
- Breckenridge – Colorado city bans electric scooters as popularity grows (8/17/2019)
- Denver – Ordinance Passed Authorizing and Regulating the Use of Scooters in City Streets (1/7/2019) (in advance of but anticipating a state law change)
- Report supporting the ordinance (12/11/2018)
- Ordinance (1/7/20 19)
- Developments:
- New rules for e-scooter riders implemented in city of Denver (8/29/2019)
- City council members vote to remove scooters from Denver sidewalks (8/27/2019)
- Bird’s Invasion of Union Station Shows Need for Scooter Watchdog (8/26/2019)
- Denver still doing scooter education rather than enforcement (7/29/2019)
- Ft. Collins – Bird scooters to relaunch in Fort Collins (7/2/2020)
CT
- Bridgeport – ‘A game changer’: Bridgeport partners with Bethel-based Lynx on electric scooter pilot program (7/6/2020)
DC
- DC Dockless Vehicle Program
- DC Bill defining and regulating e-bikes, e-scooters, and shared systems
- DC Bill Would Give Scooter, E-Bike Riders More Legal Rights (1/24/2019)
- Proposed amendment would require that scooter and e-bike riders be found at least 50 percent liable before their civil claims for damages are denied
- Developments:
- New Bill Approved By D.C. Council Requires Scooters To Be Locked To Racks, Limits Speeds On E-Bikes (10/20/2020)
- Bird, Lime, Bolt, Razor lose appeals to operate in DC (2/27/2020)
- D.C Is Installing Corrals For All Those Errantly Parked Dockless Scooters (1/24/2020)
- District Proposal Would Cut The Number Of Dockless Scooter Operators In Half (10/1/2019)
- Lime, Bird, three others lose appeals to operate scooters in D.C. (2/27/2020) (leaving Jump, Lyft, Skip and Spin)
- DDOT Slams Brakes On Planned Scooter Fleet Changes, Allows Excluded Companies To Appeal (12/26/2019)
- Bolt, Bird, Lime, And Razor Scooters Will Be Off D.C. Streets In 2020 (12/3/2019)
- Open Data Policies Make DC’s Scooter market More Competitive (4/9/2019)
- Uber-Owned Jump Is Hopping Into The D.C. Scooter Scene (4/9/2019)
FL (state law on e-scooters)
- Fort Lauderdale and Lauderdale by the Sea: Another South Florida city wrestles with scooter craze (1/17/2019)
- Gainesville:
- Orlando
- Miami
- NEW>Miami's Scooter Program to Resume Jan. 15, With New Rules in Place (1/4/2021) (new provisions focused on underage riding and sidewalk clutter)
- Helbiz Re-Deploys E-Scooters in Miami, Florida (10/29/2020)
- St. Petersburg:
- Micromobility ordinance
- Developments:
- NEW>Electric scooters hit the streets in St. Petersburg (11/9/2020) (Razor & Veo) (Parking restricted to corrals)
- E-scooters may be coming soon to a street near you (8/19/2020)
- St. Pete considers tweaks for scooter program (7/26/2019)
- Tallahassee:
- Tampa:
- Scooters are back on Tampa streets after coronavirus shelved them for seven weeks (7/24/2020)
- Bikes vs. Scooters: Does Tampa Bay have room for both? (3/2/2020)
- Electric scooters racking up tickets – but not in Tampa (2/20/2020)
- Tampa releases progress report on electronic scooter popularity (12/10/2019)
- E-Scooter Docking Stations Now Set Up in Tampa (8/9/2019)
- Who's Tampa's e-scooter grinch? Maybe not the person you think (8/9/2019)
- West Palm Beach
GA
- Athens
- Atlanta
- Ordinance (1/7/2019)
- Atlanta City Council Approves Legislation Regulating Shareable Dockless Mobility Devices and More at First Full Council Meeting of 2019 (1/8/2019)
- Developments:
- Scooters Return to Atlanta’s Streets With Newcomer Spin, a Ford Motor Company (7/2/2020)
- Atlanta rolls out new guidelines as e-scooters return to streets (7/1/2020)
- Veo Expands to Atlanta With Shared Stand-Up & Seated E-Scooters (6/29/2020)
- Atlanta to renew scooter operators’ permits on a month-to-month basis (1/22/2020)
- Atlanta, scooter companies bump heads over impounds (12/4/2019)
- City of Atlanta fails to collect $200K in scooter impound fees (11/08/2019)
- Atlanta, Other Cities Search for Solutions to Scooter Woes (8/30/2019)
- Crackdowns Spread as Atlanta Imposes Night Ban on E-Scooters and E-Bikes (8/14/2019)
- Responding to nighttime e-scooter ban, mobility protest will ‘put car to bed’—literally (8/13/2019)
- Atlanta mayor imposes nighttime e-scooter and e-bike ban, effective Friday (8/8/2019)
- Atlanta pauses scooter permits after deaths (7/25/2019)
- Surrounding Communities:
- Tucker bans shareable e-scooters and e-bikes (10/28/2019) (also the case with Alpharetta, Marietta Norcross, and Smyrna)
- Snellville extends moratorium on rentable scooters, bikes (2/20/2020)
- Decatur
- Ordinance (9/16/2019)
- Developments:
- Decatur e-scooters vanish four months after passing ordinance (Lime pulling out of entire Atlanta metro area) (1/31/2020)
- Decatur City Commission approves e-scooter ordinance (9/17/2019)
IA
- Cedar Rapids:
ID
- Boise
- Idaho Falls
IL
- Chicago
- Pilot program rules
- The Scooters Are Coming: Chicago Announces Electric Scooter Pilot Program West of Halsted Street (5/2/2019)
- Developments:
- NEW>Chicago's second e-scooter pilot ends, long-term availability still uncertain (12/14/2020)
- NEW>Ridership down 22% in city's second e-scooter pilot program (12/11/2020)
- Chicago’s second electric scooter pilot better than the first — though ridership rate is down (9/16/2020)
- Chicago E-Scooters (twitter account)
- Chicago lock-to rule means scooters are parked on bike racks. Is that a problem or NBD? (9/4/2020)
- Seated e-scooters are coming to Chicago to provide an option for people with disabilities (8/26/2020)
- 2nd Scooter Pilot Starts Aug. 12 With Bird, Lime And Spin (7/30/2020)
- 2nd Scooter Pilot Will Start in August (7/16/2020)
- Electric Scooters Return to Chicago This Summer With a Quadrupled Fleet (6/23/2020)
- Love Them Or Hate Them, E-Scooters Are Returning To Chicago This Summer (6/14/2020)
- Report: Chicago’s dockless scooter pilot came up short on Black and Latino ridership (3/13/2020)
- Next Scooter Pilot Could Have Lockable Scooters — And Fewer Companies Participating (3/10/2020)
- A breakdown of Chicago's scooter pilot, by the numbers (1/31/2020)
- Electric scooters will again descend on Chicago after first polarizing test in the city (1/29/2020)
- Scooters are off Chicago’s streets. Will the city let them come back? (10/16/2019)
- City rolls out fines for scooter companies violating rules of pilot program (7/12/2019)
- A Day in the Life of Chicago's E-Scooter Pilot Program (8/14/2019)
- One Month In, Complaints Piling Up For City’s Scooter Pilot Program (7/30/2019)
- Chicago scooter demand outpaces supply, says Lime (7/26/2019)
- CPD Reports Detail Incidents From the Early Days of the Scooter Pilot (7/26/2019)
IN (state law on e-scooters)
- Ft. Wayne:
- New scooters must follow rules of road (10/6/2019)
- Indianapolis:
- West Lafayette
KS (state law on e-scooters)
- Manhattan:
- Wichita:
KY (state law on e-scooters)
- Louisville:
LA (state law on e-scooters)
- Lafayette – Robideaux asks companies to temporarily remove scooters (1/22/2019)
MA (state law on e-scooters)
- Brookline:
- ‘A wild ride’: Brookline grapples with high demand, headaches as electric scooter pilot zips along (7/26/2019)
- E-Scooters Launch In Brookline, Accident Sends Woman To Hospital Minutes Later (4/1/2019) (in advance of but anticipating a state law change)
MD (state law on e-scooters)
- Baltimore:
- Dockless Vehicle Pilot Program (ended 7/30/2020)
- 18 E-Scooters, 5 Bicycles Pulled From Bottom Of Inner Harbor (9/10/2020)
MI
- Ann Arbor:
- Grand Rapids:
- Lansing:
MN (state law on e-scooters)
- Duluth – Duluth scouts out scooter policy (12/30/2018)
- Minneapolis:
- Motorized Foot Scooters Extended Pilot
- Developments:
- Pandemic revs up demand for scooters in Twin Cities (8/30/2020)
- Chicago, Minneapolis Give E-Scooters Another Go (7/29/2020) (expanded scope and an emphasis on equity)
- Shared scooters from Lime, Bird and Lyft are back in the Twin Cities, but old commuting patterns aren't (7/23/2020)
- Minneapolis has entered in to a license agreement with Bird and Lyft scooters for 2020. The program runs through March 31, 2021 (7/16/2020)
- Minneapolis City Council approves Bird and Lyft for this summer's scooters (6/26/2020)
- Pandemic prompts redesign of Minneapolis shared scooter program (6/17/2020)
- Minneapolis pilots mobility hubs combining transit, scooters and bicycles (9/29/2019)
- Mpls. Selects 4 Operators For E-Scooter Pilot Program, Doesn’t Include Bird (4/22/2019)
- Rochester:
- Lime scooters will launch in Rochester June 10 (6/8/2020)
- St. Paul:
- Shared Motorized Foot Scooter FAQs
- Developments:
NC (state law on e-scooters)
- Charlotte – Charlotte, N.C., Moves to Ban E-Scooters in Parts of the City (1/15/2019)
- Ordinance (1/14/2019)
- E-Scooter Share Program
- Charlotte is piloting corrals where riders are supposed to park their scooters (1/6/2020)
- Lime says Charlotte e-scooter riders have passed the million-mile mark (8/13/2019)
- Scoot Responsibly? You Could Pay Less. But if You Don’t, Scooter Costs Could Rise (3/26/2019)
- Durham – Scooters Are Coming to Durham. Is the City’s Infrastructure Ready? (3/27/2019)
- Greensboro – Bird, Lime scooters set to return to Greensboro with "pilot program" (1/28/2019)
- Raleigh – Electric scooter companies run into a roadblock trying to follow the law in Raleigh (1/14/2019) (Effort to register scooters with state DMV failed since they lack vehicle identification numbers and titles)
- Winston-Salem - Electric scooters back on Winston-Salem streets after two companies set to resume service (11/9/2020)
NE
- Lincoln
- Omaha
NJ (state law on e-scooters)
- Asbury Park
- Ordinance (2019)
- Pilot Program (ending June 2020)
- Developments:
- Report on first month of pilot (Aug. 2 - Sept. 2)
- Elizabeth
- Hoboken
- Ordinance (2019)
- Developments:
- Hoboken e-scooter survey finds nearly 75% of respondents want them to stay (11/25/2019)
- Riding While Drunk and Other Dangers of the Electric Scooter Craze (11/6/2019)
- Hoboken hires 2 officers to enforce laws for electric scooters (10/23/2019)
- Hoboken approves new, more lucrative contract with electric scooter companies (providing increased funds for education and enforcement) (8/8/2019)
NM
- Albuquerque
- Ordinance (2018)
- Shared Active Transportation (Program and Regulations)
NY (state law on e-scooters)
- New York City
- City Council Legalizes E-Bikes, E-Scooters (6/25/2020)
- Bicycles with electric assist (Law No. 2020/073 - 7/26/2020)
- Electric Scooters (Law No. 2020/072 - 7/26/2020)
- NEW>New York City Moves Forward With Electric-Scooter-Share Program (2/18/2021)
- New York City could have an e-scooter pilot program by March (6/24/2020)
- Request for Expressions of Interest for demonstration project(s) of electric-powered scooter share (10/30/2020)
- DOT Seeks Non-Manhattan E-Scooter Pilot Program (10/30/2020)
- Request for Expressions of Interest for demonstration project(s) of electric-powered scooter share (10/30/2020)
- Need for Better Infrastructure: E-Scooters Are Already Here - And The City Needs To Adapt (10/8/2020)
- City Council Legalizes E-Bikes, E-Scooters (6/25/2020)
- Yonkers
OH
- Akron:
- Athens:
- Ordinance (5/2019)
- Developments:
- Spin e-scooters released for use on campus (2/18/2020)
- E-scooters roll into Athens and OU on Tuesday (2/17/2020)
- Cincinnati:
- Dayton
- Spin Scooters are back on the streets of Dayton (8/11/2020)
- Columbus:
- Lots of People are Still Riding Scooters in Columbus (1/24/2020) (data on 2019 use)
- Cleveland
- Ordinance (6/2019)
- Developments:
- Rentable scooters returning to Cleveland with a bit more speed and later hours for operation (6/5/2020)
- Browns, Cavs, Indians fans beware: don’t bet on electric scooters getting you to home games (12/12/2019) (geofencing)
- Survey Shows Scooter Support In East Side Suburbs (12/4/2019)
- Bird Scooters Now Available for Rental in Cleveland, More on the Way (8/26/2019)
- Cleveland to allow electric scooter rentals this summer, targeting key parts of the city for pilot program (6/3/2019)
- Developments:
- Ordinance (6/2019)
- Columbus
- Ordinance (9/27/2018)
- Oxford
- Lime scooters return to Oxford (9/25/2020)
OK
- Stillwater
- Ordinance
- A new 'Spin' on scooters (1/22/2019) (Agreement between Spin and Oklahoma State includes an on-campus controlled speed of 10 m.p.h. and GPS enforced restrictions on parking)
- Tulsa
- Ordinance (10/24/2018)
OR (state law on e-scooters)
- Portland –
- Key documents:
- Second shared Scooter Pilot Program (12 months beginning 4/26/2019)
- Report on 2018 pilot
- NEW>Report on 2019 pilot
- NEW>Bike Infrastructure Key to E-scooter Usage in Portland (9/18/2020)
- Developments:
- Bird and Lime e-scooters return small fleets to Portland despite stay-home order (5/14/2020)
- Portland loses another e-scooter option as Shared pulls its vehicles from city streets (2/19/2020)
- Portland extends e-scooter pilot program through 2020 (12/20/2019)
- Lime cuts back e-scooter service in Portland (12/23/2019)
- E-Scooter Video Warns Riders Of Dangers (12/3/2019)
- Stop blocking Portland sidewalks with e-scooters: Disability rights group sends a message (10/21/2019)
- Bad weather, bald tires: E-scooters stay on Portland streets (10/18/2019)
- Portland will soon have more e-scooters than ever before (8/16/2019)
- Portland Now Has E-scooters with Seats and Bigger Tires (6/14/2019)
- Disability Rights Group Alarmed by Portland E-Scooter Rules (5/9/2019) (Complaints no longer flow directly to city but to rental company involved)
- Portland’s E-Scooter Pilot Could Set Public-Private Data Sharing Precedents for Mobility Partnerships (4/29/2019)
- Escooters, with Strings (4/26/ 2019) (Electric scooters return to Portland with new brands, fees, fines and restrictions around riding in parks, on sidewalks, and laissez faire parking.)
- In Portland, Scooter Start-Ups Played Nice. Regulators Took Note (1/20/2015)
- Key documents:
RI
- Providence:
SC
- Columbia – It’s official: Columbia bans electric scooters for 1 year (1/15/2019)
TN (state law on e-scooters)
- Brentwood (a Nashville suburb)
- Chattanooga
- ChattaScooter expands downtown e-scooter network (12/24/2020)
- Knoxville
- Memphis
- Nashville
- Scooters to stay in Nashville; They brought in $145,000 to city's general fund last year (8/21/2019)
- Nashville is banning electric scooters after a man was killed (6/21/2019)
- Plans to limit the number of scooter companies in Nashville may be illegal (12/28/2018)
- Scooters are spreading in Nashville and they're not going away, but riders have to stop breaking the law (1/15/2019)
TX (state law on e-scooters)
- Austin – Ordinance (11/9/2018), Amendments Establishing Traffic Offenses (5/23/2019)
- University of Texas Campus
- Developments:
- NEW>The scooter story: It's been a bumpy, up-and-down ride for e-scooters in Austin (1/15/2021) (Bird, Lime, and Wheels remain)
- Austin testing scooter parking program, sets up charging stations (7/1/2020)
- Lyft pulls its scooters from Austin amid pandemic, layoffs (4/30/2020)
- Lyft rolls scooters out of Austin amid layoffs, decreased ridership (4/30/2020)
- City of Austin explores ways to stop e-scooters from ending up in lake (3/3/2020)
- Over 300 scooters pulled from Austin lakes and creeks; council members call it ‘alarming’ (1/23/2020)
- City survey finds scooters are problematic on hike and bike trails, suggests banning them (12/3/2019)
- City of Austin officials approve 400% increase in OjO Electric's scooter fleet size (10/29/2019)
- Swiftmile will become the ‘gas station’ for electric bikes and scooters in Austin (10/24/2019)
- Austin hosts event to educate riders on new scooter rules (6/22/2019)
- Scooter riders beware, city sets safety rules, fines (5/23/2019)
- Dockless Electric Scooter-Related Injuries Study — Austin, Texas, September–November 2018 (April 2019)
- Amid Safety Concerns, Austin Officials Ask CDC to Investigate Scooter Injuries (2/6/2019)
- Austin Transportation publishes new dockless mobility open data tools (1/14/2019)
- In Texas Tech Hub, Scooter Mania (3/23/2019)
- Surrounding communities:
- Rollingwood officially bans abandonment of motorized scooters in the city (2/19/2020) (not prohibiting their use but their being left on sidewalks)
- Corpus Christi – City of Corpus Christi aims to regulate electric scooters (11/20/2018)
- Corpus Christi City Council passes electric scooter pilot program with $1 per-scooter fee (1/15/2019)
- 'Bird' scooter rental company leaving Corpus Christi (1/28/2019) (decision comes before deadline for agreeing to the new fee)
- Dallas:
- Ordinance (6/26/2018)
- Electric scooters must be taken off Dallas’ streets by the end of the week, city says (8/31/2020)
- What has Dallas learned about electric scooters in the past 17 months? (12/4/2019)
- Dallas will wait a little longer for tighter scooter regulations (11/13/2019)
- Lyft expands scooter coverage to new areas including South Dallas (7/29/2019)
- Ordinance (6/26/2018)
- El Paso:
- Laredo – Laredo City Council agenda has 100+ items, including reality TV series, scooter pilot program (1/22/2019)
- San Antonio – Ordinance (11/10/2018)
- NEW>Blue Duck seeks return to San Antonio for its e-scooters (12/16/2020)
- Six month pilot
- City offers an app that allows citizens to report violations with photo
- Could scooter mania just blow over in San Antonio? (12/30/2019)
- Citing Pedestrian Safety, the Pearl Bans Electric Scooters (1/29/2019) (large private area in San Antonio)
- City Council to mull new restrictions for scooters on San Antonio streets (1/22/2019)
- San Marcos
- Waco
UT (state law on e-scooters)
- Provo:
- St. George
VA (state law on e-scooters)
- Alexandria:
- NEW>New Electronic Scooter Program Launches in Alexandria (2/17/2021) [Link]
- Helbiz e-scooters come to Arlington, Alexandria (7/28/2020) (riders can travel between the two communities)
- City Recommends Riding E-Scooters for Errands and Social Distancing (6/30/2020)
- City extends e-scooter pilot to end of year (9/12/2019)
- Albemarle County - Albemarle passes ordinance for use of e-scooters, e-bikes (12/20/2019)
- Arlington County – 9-month Demonstration Project (10/2018)
- Charlottesville – Pilot Program (running until 7/31/2019, extended through 12/18/2019)
- Pilot Permit Program Regulations (11/13/2018)
- Video on proper parking
- Developments:
- Lime ending operations in Charlottesville (1/31/2019)
- New e-scooters rule in Charlottesville includes $50 fine (12/3/2019)
- Scoot Over: New mobility hits the road (6/05/2019)
- Loudoun County – Shared Mobility Devices Pilot Program
- Norfolk
- Scooters: On Demand Transportation for All (Norfolk 1 year report) (8/7/2020)
- Richmond
- Roanoke
- Virginia Beach
- Williamsburg
- Williamsburg City Council unanimously OKs e-scooters (12/12/2019)
- Winston-Salem
WA (state law on e-scooters)
- King County (in which Seattle is situated):
- NEW>Electric scooter share pilot program launched (8/2020)
- Seattle:
- Sit down for this: Wheels starts deploying its unique style of scooters as part of Seattle sharing program (11/16/2020) (company says that accessibility has attracted a broader demographic of riders, including half who are women and a third who are over the age of 35)
- Will rental scooters serve all Seattle neighborhoods? Vendor missed equity target with bikes last year (10/6/2020)
- Lime is first company to roll out electric scooters as part of Seattle’s new mobility program (9/17/2020)
- Seattle selects three scooter companies to seek permits — here's when they will hit the streets (9/16/2020)
- Seattle rolls out electric scooter regulations amid questions about parking, speed and COVID-19 (8/20/2020)
- Jump bikes return to Seattle, scooters could soon follow (6/24/2020)
- Seattle explores on-street bike and scooter parking to clear up cluttered sidewalks (9/4/2019)
- Seattle builds roadmap for e-scooters, plans launch in 2020 (8/21/2019)
- Spokane – Scoot Spokane
- Scooters, electric bikes now allowed on Spokane Valley Trails (9/25/2020)
- Lime scales back scooters in Spokane due to COVID-19 (7/31/2020)
- Lime scooters returning to Spokane streets Wednesday (6/29/2020)
- City eyes increased enforcement as Lime scooters return (3/10/2020)
- Spokane’s Lime scooter riders logged 643,000 miles in 2019 (12/31/2019)
- Lime Bike and Scooter 2019 Year-End Report (1/8/2020)
- Tacoma
- Lime scooters will return to Tacoma streets in March (2/28/2020) (RFP out for permanent program starting in June)
- Yakima
- NEW>City to try out motorized scooters in downtown Yakima (2/17/2021)
WI (state law on e-scooters)
- Milwaukee – Dockless Scooter Pilot Study (through Dec. 31, 2019)
- Milwaukee DPW recommends dockless scooter pilot program return in 2021 (9/30/2020)
- E-Scooter trial ends in Milwaukee (12/5/2019)
- What happens to electric scooters in Milwaukee in the winter? How Bird, Lime, Spin plan for the snow (11/6/2019)
- More electric scooters appear on Milwaukee streets (2 more companies approved) (8/13/2019)
- City declines applications from additional electric scooter companies (8/4/2019)
- ‘Having some problems:’ Lime expansion denied, Milwaukee’s scooter program on hold (8/2/2019)
- Electric scooters spilling into neighboring Milwaukee communities (7/26/2019)
- Milwaukee learning from other cities' woes while rolling out e-scooters (7/22/2019)