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closed #181796

Scooters, Bike-share and Related Issues

Case Date:
10/12/2022

Drunk drivers are protected while cyclists, pedestrians, and scooter users are not.

closed #184540

Scooters, Bike-share and Related Issues

1750 W 17th ST

Case Date:
7/10/2023

Two Lime scooters parked in our parking spaces in this business parking area. How do I stop this dropoff of scooters from occurring?

closed #184551

Scooters, Bike-share and Related Issues

Case Date:
7/11/2023

Velo e-bike abandoned for two weeks at corner of 1200 e Sheridan Dr and 1000 s highland. Please remove it. Thank you.

closed #184836

Scooters, Bike-share and Related Issues

Case Date:
7/31/2023

A scooter rack has been set up in the street in our residential neighborhood. It should not be there, should it?

closed #184881

Scooters, Bike-share and Related Issues

Case Date:
8/2/2023

There are two Veos blocking the public sidewalk at Rockport and Graham. And Banta.

closed #185058

Scooters, Bike-share and Related Issues

Case Date:
8/16/2023

This scooter parking has recently been placed in front of our home without notice. We feel that this parking will be an extreme nuisance to our home, as it is located directly outside bedroom windows. We fear that intoxicated people riding these scooters will be close to our parked cars and right outside our home on a frequent basis. We are worried about noise and the safety of our home and property with intoxicated people parking scooters in the middle of the night. In addition, we do not want people loitering outside of the home. We want this parking area relocated. The parking is located at the corner of 12th Street and Grant Street.

closed #185581

Scooters, Bike-share and Related Issues

Case Date:
9/14/2023

We need to get rid of those electric public scooters. I am a big advocate for public transportation, but it is clear that the infrastructure of Bloomington is not meant to handle anything other than cars, foot traffic, or occasionally bicycles. The use of public electric scooters constantly poses a risk to pedestrians walking, or vehicles in motion. As a walker I have nearly been hit by one of these multiple times, and as a driver these things are such a liability due to their speed and the fact that most people who use them do not follow the rules, they just zip around. Last year a young man died on one of those scooters. This year another is injured. This is becoming a public safety emergency, so please for the sake of the bodily health of the citizens, ban these scooters.

closed #185600

Scooters, Bike-share and Related Issues

Bloomington City Hall, 401 N Morton St, Bloomington, IN 47401, USA

Case Date:
9/15/2023

Following up on case# #185581: The people who ride those scooters are typically rude dismissive of common decency. They ride fast on sidewalks even when there are people present, they ride them in the dark in groups, sometimes 2-3 on a single scooter, they *often* ride the wrong way on one-way streets, and if you make a comment to them about hazards they are creating they curse and/or gesture obscenely. Please please please ban them from the city. Yesterday there was another accident - 10th/Woodlawn this time. Does the City really want to be known as a place that encourages people to risk their lives, and turn a blind eye when people are injured or killed? How many more accidents is it going to take for you to wake up and stop the insanity.

closed #185871

Scooters, Bike-share and Related Issues

322 E Cottage Grove AVE

Case Date:
10/4/2023

A man picking up scooters from a corral today at 10:30am who was driving a pickup with a large trailor had parked in the middle of Grant Street at this location while attending to the scooters, blocking passage of vehicles traveling south. As I rode by (bicycle, not a scooter) he aggressively moved into what remained of the available street to use, attempted to block my path and emitted a deranged, sneering sound as I passed. It was a dangerous and unnecessary thing for him to do. He was possibly in his 30s, was a bit overweight and seemed a bit "limited". Please inform the scooter companies that their employees should be trained to respect people around them while they are working.

closed #178066

Scooters, Bike-share and Related Issues

Bloomington City Hall, 401 N Morton St, Bloomington, IN 47401, USA

Case Date:
11/2/2021

This specific incident involved a Lime scooter, but I urge you to please ban ALL motorized scooters from Bloomington. My family and I were just coming back from the airport yesterday when we saw a young woman collide head-first into a car in cross-traffic (without a helmet because of course, none of these scooters come with helmets) because her brake stopped working. This was no one's fault but the manufacturers'. But given how much they make, I'm doubtful much will come out of it if she were to take legal action. There have been so many accidents (some fatal, as you know) in so many cities, including ours, due to these companies dumping scooter after scooter onto seemingly every busy sidewalk, and it is completely within your control to ban them here--after all, Indianapolis did. I would like to know your reasons for allowing them to continue to be used in Bloomington when we know how dangerous they have and will continue to be, as long as they are on the streets.. Just how many more accidents must we see and hear about until something concrete is done?