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Bexley council debates proposed rules for e-bikes and scooters: age limits, training and helmet requirements under consideration
Summary
Councilmember Markham introduced a draft ordinance to update local rules for e-bikes, scooters and motorized personal mobility devices, proposing age limits, training, helmet rules, and inspection and impoundment authority.
Councilmember Markham introduced a draft ordinance to update Bexley's bicycle and motorized-personal-mobility-device regulations, prompting an extended discussion about age limits, training, helmet rules and enforcement.
The proposed changes would:
- Prohibit operation of motor scooters and certain powered bicycles on sidewalks and in public parks where they could endanger pedestrians. - Set age and training thresholds (the draft proposes no operation of electric bicycles by persons under 14 and requires training for 16-year-olds to operate class 1 or 2 electric bicycles;…
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