With Hurricane Dorian threatening to deliver winds as high as 130 mph to Florida...
- With Hurricane Dorian threatening to deliver winds as high as 130 mph to Florida’s Atlantic coast, Miami has ordered thousands of electric ride-share scooters scattered around the city to be collected and secured, preventing them from becoming dangerous projectiles when the dangerous storm arrives.
In making the order, Miami is joining municipalities across the state that have urged companies to collect the vehicles, which have become a ubiquitous sight in the streets and sidewalks of cities across Florida and across the country. “A scooter like that is another object that could become a dangerous projectile with high winds,” city spokesman John Heffernan told Reuters on Friday.
As the scooters’ presence expand across the United States and Europe in recent months, serving as a swift means of short-distance travel, some residents and businesses have complained that they clutter sidewalks when parked and endanger pedestrians when driven. “We are collecting and safely storing our scooters in the City of Miami,” a spokesperson for Bird said in a statement. With vehicles in five other Florida cities, the Santa Monica, Calif.-based company was already scaling back deployment and began collecting the scooters in Miami when it received a notice with a noon deadline.
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