{"id":344957,"date":"2026-06-03T16:13:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/344957\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T16:13:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:13:19","slug":"news-12-long-island-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/344957\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Long Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Long Beach City Council voted to ban electric bicycles, motorized scooters and electric scooters from its boardwalk, beach and sidewalks.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The updated ordinance, which went into effect immediately, limits where these electric vehicles can be ridden and comes with stricter penalties for improperly riding in the city.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The new ordinance comes with fines up to $500 or up to 15 days in jail.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Long Beach, particularly the boardwalk, is known for being a bike-friendly city, so this law has divided many in the community.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Some people said they support the ban over safety concerns about reckless riding and injury risks. Others said the bikes and scooters are an effective, non-car mode of transportation when used properly.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The new law does not impact regular bicycles on the boardwalk, which are still allowed in the designated center lane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Long Beach City Council voted to ban electric bicycles, motorized scooters and electric scooters from its boardwalk,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-344957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}