The city’s enforcement data from 2021-25 shows 129 scooters seized, 74 impounded, 53 vendor warnings, 13 vendor citations, 3,016 rider warnings, 51 rider citations, five guns seized and eight arrests. No deaths were reflected in the city’s data. Meanwhile, Houston last year recorded its deadliest year on record for vehicle drivers, passengers and pedestrians, with 345 people killed on Houston-area streets, a record high after two years of declines.
over 300 people died last year because of car accidents vs 0 from e-bikes and scooters in the past 4 years and you’re gonna put a curfew on the e-bikes???
Cars are a lost cause but maybe we can keep those e-bike deaths at 0 by banning them /s
Hey, having to avoid these pesky e-bikes on the public road without braking is very dangerous! /s
Man, wait until this mayor finds out about how many people get killed by cars between 8pm and 4am
This has to be the dumbest elected leadership seeking approval from the dumbest in society.
Reading the Houston city council discussion, it looks like they intend to curfew standup (platform) e-scooters. But the ordinance uses the term “micromobility device”, which is not really a legal definition of anything, and could include lots of things (even 50cc scooters). Hopefully the ordinance could be amended to clarify.
Since the vast majority of these will be app-rented e-scooters (ERYD/Lime), and those companies already operate under franchise agreements with the city, it seems like the easier path would be to put hours-of-operation limits on the rental companies.
Not that I think limiting e-scooters is a good idea, either.
That’s ok, I’m sure anyone using them for transportation can easily use Houston’s excellent subway, right?
Ahh, one of those websites that continually redraws the content to try to display more ads
I really should move that up My priority list. I even have an extra raspberry pi I could use for that
In the mean time you can use AdGuard’s public DNS. They try to bury it because they offer paid things as well but they do have just a normal, public, ad-blocking DNS you can use.
I run it on my NAS in a docker
The noscript browser extension can be handy on sites like that.
(I set the default to be trusted though, otherwise too many sites break)
I wish. Apple lets me set automatic reader mode which usually helps, but sites like this seem intentionally broken for that.
I wonder if there’s a racial or class component here. Can’t have the poors or the DEIs getting around. /s
I don’t know what it’s like in Houston and I know it’s known for being car centric but where I live the Uber eats / door dash / whatever economy basically runs on those ebikes.
You can also guess the type of person riding them.
Does this include all types of mobility devices like the one below?
I don’t know what it’s like in Houston but here in Toronto the entire food delivery industry would pretty much come to a stand still without e-bikes. do they kill people? no. are they dangerous? I’m sorry but with the way some of those dudes drive those things on sidewalks and the amount of times i’ve seen them hit people…yeah. We’ve also had a few literally blow up on commuter trains to the point where we out right banned them on trains.
There’s more to this that I don’t think people realize. no they don’t kill people but yes they do cause accidents because of the people driving them and feeling like they can ride them on sidewalks or…you know…the batteries will randomly explode.
Iowa just tried to pass a bill that would ban all bicycles - not just e-bikes - from any road that has a speed limit over 25 mph (public response was loud and immediate so they scrapped it).
We’re going to see more of these.
They need to enforce where they can ride. The sidwalk going 30mph is not the correct answer.
Sound the alarm - we need to broadcast a dumb motherfucker alert
Jealous if the freedom this bike curfew affords them down in Texas
Small government eh?
Given how many lanes Houston’s highways already have I’m starting to wonder if the cars are the ones in charge there.
This is just another excuse for cops to fine/arrest/oppress people. Utter bullshit.
