LETTER: E-scooters are \u2018running amok\u2019 in Surrey<\/p>\n
Published 7:00 am Friday, July 24, 2026<\/p>\n
Editor,<\/p>\n
In the City of Surrey, e-scooters are strictly prohibited on all public property, including roadways, sidewalks, and parks. In Surrey, riding e-scooters in public spaces violates the Motor Vehicle Act and the Parks Bylaw #13480. E-scooters are only permitted for use on private property in Surrey.<\/p>\n
I have observed e-scooters racing on pathways in City parks such as the Semiahmoo Trail. More recently I observed a youth weaving his e-scooter through a crowd of people in Holland Park during the Fusion Festival and in plain sight of two uniformed City of Surrey bylaw enforcement officers. When I confronted the two officers about their lack of action in the face of the infraction, I was told that they were only present to escort the mayor (who was nowhere in sight). They also told me they could not even talk to a bylaw violator who is a child without the parent present. Does the latter statement sound ludicrous to you?<\/p>\n
E-scooters operated by children or adults on sidewalks, trails and parkland are an increasing menace to pedestrian safety in Surrey. It appears that we have a city council presiding over a bylaw enforcement department with no interest in addressing this menace.<\/p>\n
On Oct. 17, as voters we can change the situation.<\/p>\n
Deryk Norton, Surrey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LETTER: E-scooters are \u2018running amok\u2019 in Surrey Published 7:00 am Friday, July 24, 2026 Editor, In the City…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-827154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}