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Palm Beach transportation official urges e‑bike safety as micromobility use rises
Summary
Deputy director Brian Rusher told the village Public Safety Committee that electric bicycles, scooters and other micromobility vehicles are growing in number and speed, outpacing statutes and infrastructure; he urged helmets, education and local planning and promoted countywide outreach and events.
Brian Rusher, deputy director of multimodal at the Palm Beach Transportation Planning Agency, told the Village of Wellington Public Safety Committee that the rapid rise in electric bicycles, scooters and similar micromobility devices is creating local safety and planning challenges.
"The overall cost of e bikes, eMotos, e scooters, they are all coming down very rapidly. And they're becoming more accessible to everybody despite, you know, the laws that we have on the books," Rusher said, describing a trend the agency is seeing across Palm Beach County.
Rusher said Florida law defines micromobility devices but that statutes and local infrastructure have not kept pace with device capabilities. He cited what he described as a statutory definition…
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