LAKEWOOD, Ohio (WJW) – It’s been round lower than every week and Lakewood’s electric scooter share program is already inflicting controversy.
An area dentist mentioned the electric scooters are blocking entry to his workplace for his aged sufferers.
Lakewood dentist Dr. Greg DeVor’s workplace has sat on Madison Avenue for nearly twenty years, however his workplace sits proper in entrance of an electric scooter station designated within the metropolis’s ‘bicycle-scooter share’ pilot program, which started Monday.
“Tuesday, we see someone with the city of Lakewood out here lining the street. They are boxing the area in and by 8:30 a.m., there are seven scooters that are dropped off here. No warning, no nothing,” mentioned DeVor.
It’s an issue for DeVor as a result of a lot of his sufferers are over 65.
“Normally they would be dropped off and picked up right in front of the office. Now they are going around the corner to try and get dropped off, causing a back up. It’s a mess,” mentioned DeVor.
DeVor mentioned after he received quite a few complaints from his aged sufferers, he contacted town.
“I was told basically for 30 days, I have suck it up. So this morning, I moved each and every scooter back onto the curb to give my patient’s access to care,” mentioned DeVor.
The metropolis launched a press release that reads, partly:
“This pilot program has introduced twelve vehicle stations throughout Lakewood. None of these stations took away any parking spaces. The area noted at the intersection of Wyandotte and Madison has always been marked as ‘no parking,’ and has never been designated by the city as any form of ‘loading’ zone. We will continue to monitor and analyze public feedback during the term of this pilot program.”
Meanwhile, DeVor is looking on residents to voice their complaints in regards to the roll-out of this new initiative.