{"id":199008,"date":"2025-12-24T02:18:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/199008\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T02:18:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:18:06","slug":"electric-scooter-rider-on-auckland-harbour-bridge-stuns-drivers-with-risky-midday-commute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/199008\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric scooter rider on Auckland Harbour Bridge stuns drivers with risky midday commute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Reports of the December 18 incident were first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/lime-scooter-rider-seen-on-northern-motorway-heading-to-auckland-harbour-bridge\/FFEIZF5ZH5DULIPWEIRKXKKQHM\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/lime-scooter-rider-seen-on-northern-motorway-heading-to-auckland-harbour-bridge\/FFEIZF5ZH5DULIPWEIRKXKKQHM\/\">made last week<\/a>, but police were unable to locate the rider after dispatching a motorways unit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cElectric scooters should not be on the motorway network given the safety risks this poses to the rider and other motorists\u201d, a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">In a similar episode earlier this year, an e-scooter user was captured by dashcam on Auckland\u2019s Southern Motorway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">The rider was slowly travelling only metres from high-speed traffic and held up motorists behind them as they entered the motorway at the Gillies Ave on-ramp in February.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Dashcam footage of somebody riding an electric scooter on Auckland\u2019s Southern Motorway on Sunday, 23 February 2025.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Dashcam footage of somebody riding an electric scooter on Auckland\u2019s Southern Motorway on Sunday, 23 February 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">The Herald understood the rider exited at Khyber Pass Rd and continued on to Newton Rd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reports of the December 18 incident were first made last week, but police were unable to locate the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2840,51,122535,1565,122536,46331,15211,14037,20589,87362,685,101,70365,51720,111,43,139,69,90,4056,1071,102566,56574,9423,6382,686,3608,102],"class_list":{"0":"post-199008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-across","9":"tag-auckland","10":"tag-baffled","11":"tag-bridge","12":"tag-casually","13":"tag-commute","14":"tag-drivers","15":"tag-electric","16":"tag-harbour","17":"tag-joyride","18":"tag-last","19":"tag-left","20":"tag-midday","21":"tag-motorists","22":"tag-new-zealand","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-newzealand","25":"tag-nz","26":"tag-on","27":"tag-person","28":"tag-rider","29":"tag-risky","30":"tag-scooter","31":"tag-stuns","32":"tag-took","33":"tag-week","34":"tag-were","35":"tag-with"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}