CINCINNATI (CINCINNATI ENQUIRER) – Scooter riders can now trip into the sundown.
Cincinnati’s Department of Transportation & Engineering on Tuesday prolonged a 6 p.m. curfew on electrical scooter use to 9 p.m., in accordance to our media companions on the Cincinnati Enquirer.
If customers of Lime and Bird scooters abide by newer guidelines for the subsequent 60 days, the town will take into account returning the curfew to 11 p.m., Transportation Director John Brazina instructed Cincinnati City Council’s Public Safety & (*6*) Committee. That’s the place it stood till April when metropolis council imposed a 6 p.m. curfew to curtail scooter-riding violations.
On Tuesday, each firms pledged tighter enforcement on using guidelines and extra penalties for customers who break them. They now require photograph IDs to forestall riders youthful than 18 and make riders full brief security quizzes on their first use of both app.
Lime and Bird welcomed the prolonged hours and assist a return to 11 p.m.
“The curfew was extremely damaging,” Bird senior supervisor Vaughn Roland mentioned after talking to council members.
Among Lime customers, greater than 44,000 individuals opened its app between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. since April, solely to study the scooters weren’t out there then, Lime’s Lee Foley instructed the council committee. Its Cincinnati enterprise fell by about 50% through the months with the curfew, he mentioned after the assembly.
E-scooters first arrived in Cincinnati in July 2018, with about 400 scooters now populating metropolis streets.
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