VEO<\/a>, one of three companies that has partnered with the city of Orlando, and operations manager Rick Burkholtz said more and more people are using micromobility devices as a primary vehicle. <\/p>\n\u201cIn a month, maybe tens of thousands of rides and a lot of them are repeat customers, because it is their mode of transportation daily,\u201d Buckholtz said.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s an option that many visitors and locals often use to run errands, get to work and for fun. But once the ride is over, the question becomes: Where does the e-bike or e-scooter go? Sometimes, it ends up in the middle of the sidewalk, even when there’s a designated parking spot just across the street. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe know that we need to make sure that there is convenient and safe and secure bike parking for people near their destination,\u201d said Jacques Coulon, the transportation planning division manager at the city of Orlando.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for Lime said education and infrastructure are key to safely integrating micromobility devices into everyday life. The company would like to see more clearly visible corrals for riders. <\/p>\n
\u201cMost people want to follow the rules, and we want to make it easy for people to know where they should park, where they shouldn\u2019t park,\u201d Coulon said.<\/p>\n
The city of Orlando is in the final stages of its report that will show where people want to ride, where they want to park and how the city can incorporate those plans with the big streetscape projects that are already in the works. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe are looking at how to accommodate everybody,\u201d Coulon said.<\/p>\n
For rentals, most riders are required to take a picture of where they leave the device, and can face warnings or suspensions for improper parking. But where the city has less control is with personal e-bikes and e-scooters. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t have a role as heavy-handed to regulate how they operate, but we want to make sure they are operating and parking in a way that is safe,\u201d Coulon said.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why before the e-bike and e-scooter craze completely takes over, city officials say it\u2019s time to get everyone on the same path. The city of Orlando is finalizing its plans for micromobility parking and city leaders say they hope to release them to the public in May or June, and then start implementing changes as soon as they can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 As demand for e-bikes, e-scooters and other micromobility vehicles continues to increase, cities across the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[274,2173,2175,28,115,1335,139,141,140,9429,278,729],"class_list":["post-270718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-app-top-stories","tag-app-traffic-transit","tag-app-traffic-and-transit","tag-florida","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-sarah-winkelmann","tag-top-stories","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}