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Residents and police urge education, enforcement as e-bikes and scooters speed through Lake Bluff downtown
Summary
At the June meeting of the Village of Lake Bluff Board of Trustees residents raised safety concerns about fast e-bikes and scooters in the downtown; police and trustees said education is the near-term approach while neighboring municipalities have pursued bans.
Resident Stephanie Martin urged the Village of Lake Bluff Board of Trustees on June 9 to address what she called a "surge, pun intended, of e bike and scooter users" downtown, saying posted signs asking riders to walk their devices are not being heeded.
The matter matters because trustees and police said speeding, high-performance electric bikes and scooters that can reach roughly 30 miles per hour are creating near-misses downtown and pose a risk to pedestrians, especially children and older residents.
Stephanie Martin, who said she lives at 126 East Sheridan Place, told the trustees she counted multiple users ignoring eight downtown sandwich-board signs and described three near-miss incidents during a single outing. "There are no fewer…
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