ATLANTA (AP) – Atlanta is now charging fees to transportation companies when it picks up their abandoned or improperly parked rental scooters.
City officials say they’re no longer simply releasing the scooters without receiving impound fees.
Public Works Commissioner James Jackson Jr. ordered that the fees be collected.
The change was made after it was revealed last month that the city failed to collect at least $200,000 in scooter impound fees since summer, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
But one scooter company says the city has provided inconsistent evidence the impounded devices were illegally parked.