The e-scooter rental company Bird is in working in Leesburg. The city is working on methods to control them.
LEESBURG, Va. — Leesburg may see some new additions on the highway inside the subsequent 12 months.
Bird, an e-scooter rental company, is requesting to find as much as 100 scooters in Leesburg throughout its first 12 months in the city.
Leesburg Mayor Kelly Burk stated over the past 24 hours she has acquired an awesome response in opposition to the scooter company’s plans to deploy the motorized scooters inside the city.
“Can I picture them? Not particularly,” Burk stated. “As I said, we have a very small footprint. It’s easy to walk from one place to the other. You park your car and you kind of leave it. I’m just not sure that it’s the right fit for Leesburg. But that’s something we will discuss we will continue to discuss.”
The city can regulate what number of scooters might be in a selected space. The allow course of may also enable Leesburg to set sure places the place scooters might be parked, the place they will and might’t go, scooter speeds, and fines when insurance policies aren’t met.
The city can’t deny the company from putting its scooters in the city, the company does nevertheless need to have a allow based mostly on the rules the city comes up with.
“We have to work within the bounds of what the General Assembly has designated for localities. We can regulate and we can set permit fees but we can’t outright deny,” Burk stated.
Some individuals who frequent Leesburg stated they have been involved a couple of lack of room on Main Street for the scooters to drive on, in addition to including scooters into such a walkable space.
“I mean I think what’s kind of nice about Leesburg is everything’s walkable. So having like electric scooters kind of zipping around. It’ll change the vibe,” Posido Vega stated.
Town Council mentioned the scooters throughout a Monday night time work session. There is a public listening to scheduled for July 11 and one other for September.
Seven tentative places have been recognized for the scooters to be docked in Leesburg, together with Mervin Johnson Park, close to the steps in entrance of Rouge, two places on the Loudoun County Government Center, Market Station, MacDowell Brew Kitchen, and in entrance of Crescent Place.
The closing places will likely be authorised as a part of the allow course of.
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