Scooter companies need strict safety oversight
I am someone who moved away from Chattanooga to Tacoma, Washington, and have seen how electric scooters have been implemented. Despite public opinion of them being high here, they are a dangerous mess the way they are deployed.
The biggest problems stem from the lack of standards on maintenance which leads to them being electric death-traps with failures, including brake failures, steering failures, and in one of my own personal cases, the back wheel coming loose while going down the road resulting in a near miss of being run over by a car.
If Chattanooga wants to have scooters, officials cannot let the scooter companies push them around, and they absolutely need to put in place regulations that hold the scooter companies accountable for maintenance failures of the scooters.
Chattanooga officials can’t let those scooter companies get away with creating that danger in Chattanooga.