A Bird Scooter has been laying on the sidewalk for 5 days in front of Groves Square. Called Bird, not picked up yet. I am the owner of the Groves Square property.
Bird scooter blocking sidewalk
Bird scooter blocking sidewalk
A BIRD scooter was left by my house near the bushes and needs to be removed.
The pavement breakup at the intersection of Winslow Farm Drive and So. Highland is really getting awful. I am almost unable to cross that area in my mobility scooter to access the sidewalk to Winslow Sports Complex. Also, a pothole has developed at the SOUTHERN intersection of Moss Creek Drive and Winslow Farm Drive. Several other intersections in Winslow Farm also could use maintenance.
Large potholes on 11th street at Washington. Caused a scooter rider to crash as I witnessed.
There are three water drains in the road on Pickwick, just east of the corner. They are all far below the new road surface. Please have someone come take a look. Think what it would be like to ride across them on a bike or scooter at speed after taking the long downhill leading to them. I don't know if they can be fixed now that the work is done. But please, please don't ever do this on any other roads.
In the middle of the intersection of 4th and College, there is a manhole cover. It is in the east bound lanes of 4th Street as they cross over College Avenue. On the south side of this manhole cover, there is a MASSIVE pot hole. If you are biking on 4th headed east, as so many people do, that pothole is just waiting to grab hold of your front tire, latch on to it, and spit you out head first over the handlebars, smacking into the pavement. Someone will go down. Just a matter of time. A scooter probably won't stand a chance either.
Corner of Wylie and South Woodlawn. Pavement has dropped (2 inches?) In the northbound lane of Woodlawn. It's impossible to miss like a pothole because the dropped pavement has formed a hard ledge you jolt over. This would likely throw an e-scooter rider forward over their handlebars. Gives me a serious jolt in the car so very dangerous. It has been previously patched but is continuing to drop quickly. May need to check for collapsed infrastructure under the road. I will take a picture if requested.
I would like to ask the City of Bloomington to begin considering steps to put ordinances, rules, regulations on these Bird Scooters that have infiltrated our city. I have seen almost every person riding in violation of the safety rules the company urges. There have been two people on a scooter, all of them without helmets, and riding on sidewalks/all over campus. They are getting parked on campus bike racks, cluttering up side walks, and generally are unsafe and without any kind of ordinance in place, could only cause potential risk to both car drivers, pedestrians, cyclists etc. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45596449 There are known deaths on these modes of transportation. Indianapolis enacted an ordinance after unsafe crashes had occurred. Bloomington needs to be aware of the risk and make stations for these scooters with agreements on proper use.