Hmm....Once again, dear readers, where are the communications & community engagement with the public BEFORE these risks and threats to public safety get dumped on the sidewalks here in downtown???
Needless to say your MesaZona blogger's opinion is not mixed. ASU in Tempe has banned them. Scottsdale is impounding them and imposing fines. MESA DOES NOTHING.
Here's a Playbook for those pervasive scooters. Help is on the way, while city spokesperson Steve Wright says that they are "considering the options" today at the same time another venture-capital funded company deploys another 1,000 eScooters!
What's the difference you can clearly see in this image below compared with what we've been seeing here all along the sidewalks in Downtown Mesa for months?
Users are operating on the streets NOT the sidewalks and they are wearing helmets. How best to manage these services???? Mesa has done nothing.
. . . "there’s still so much to learn,” said Russ Brooks, T4America’s Director of Smart Cities. “They can help advance city goals related to equity, access to jobs and services, climate, and more. But in order to achieve these goals, cities have a major role to play in thoughtfully managing them to ensure that the benefits accrue equitably to everyone."
The Playbook is divided into eight policy sections: General provisions, operations, equipment & safety, parking & street design, equity, communications & community engagement, data, and metrics.
A new playbook for shared Micromobility
An evolving guide for cities struggling with dockless bikes and scooters
Two years ago fleets of dockless scooters and bikes weren't even within the realm of possibilities. Today, hundreds of cities across the country are grappling with how to manage the latest advances in shared micromobility services.
That's where this our brand new resource—the Shared Micromobility Playbook—comes in as cities consider how best to manage these services.
Produced with feedback from the 23 cities that participated in our Smart Cities Collaborative, the Playbook is intended to help all cities better understand the variety of policy options at their disposal by exploring the core components of a comprehensive shared micromobility policy.
How can our streets be safer for the most vulnerable users?
Next week, our colleagues at the National Complete Streets Coalition will release Dangerous by Design 2019. This report ranks the largest 100 metro areas and each state plus Washington, DC based on how dangerous they are for people walking.
Register for the release webinar on January 24 at 2:30 p.m. EST and learn more about the problem and what can be done to save lives.
