The Salt Lake City Council received a briefing Tuesday on new e-scooter rules that would set stricter limitations on where the devices can be parked but that create few new standards to reduce sidewalk ridership.
The proposed ordinance, which is subject to approval by the City Council, “clearly puts it into city law where they can and can’t be ridden,” according to Jon Larsen, Salt Lake City’s transportation director. It would bind drivers to all laws that apply to bicycles and prohibit them from riding on any sidewalk where bicycles aren’t allowed.
But the suggested rules don’t go so far as to create mandatory slow zones or scooter-free areas in high-traffic pedestrian areas, as the city’s transportation department has threatened.