{"id":292797,"date":"2026-09-24T06:28:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T06:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/292797\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T06:28:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T06:28:23","slug":"sgb-announces-reversal-of-pitt-e-scooter-impoundment-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/292797\/","title":{"rendered":"SGB announces reversal of Pitt e-scooter impoundment policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University will not impound e-scooters as previously suggested in a new policy, according to a statement given to Student Government Board member Nina Rivera.<\/p>\n<p>At SGB\u2019s weekly meeting in Nordy\u2019s Place on Tuesday night, Rivera reported learning in a meeting with Pitt\u2019s director of mobility, Jonathan Pearson, that the office is not impounding e-scooters. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pc.pitt.edu\/e-scooters-e-bikes\" class=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recent e-scooter ban<\/a> indicated that Pitt may impound vehicles parked on campus.<\/p>\n<p>Pitt recently announced a policy banning e-scooters from being parked or stored anywhere on campus, with an effective date of Aug. 1. It said e-scooters found on campus would be subjected to fines and impoundment by the university, with a first offense fine of $100 and a second offense fine of $200.<\/p>\n<p>Pearson explained in a statement that rather than impounding the scooters, the mobility office\u00a0 has \u201cfound scooter locks that will allow the scooter to be locked where it is located and a citation will be issued with contact information to pay any associated fine and have the e-scooter released.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also explained that under the new policy, there appears to be a reduced number of e-scooters on campus. He added that the mobility office has issued warnings to e-scooters, though \u201cnot nearly as many as expected.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The University will not impound e-scooters as previously suggested in a new policy, according to a statement given&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-292797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}