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Community board flags scooter and e‑bike safety, asks police data be reviewed
Summary
The Daae Community Advisory Board read correspondence urging limits on scooter and e‑bike caravans, recommended reducing guided group sizes and asked staff to request police incident data to inform enforcement and possible code changes.
The Daae Community Advisory Board on March 11 heard written correspondence from resident Sherry Corrington urging the municipality to tighten rules for guided motorized groups and to treat large scooter and e‑bike caravans as a public‑safety concern. Chair (S1) read Corrington’s letter, which cites SMC 5.080.02 (motor vehicle rental agencies) and notes current guided‑tour limits of eight vehicles. Corrington recommended reducing caravan limits for scooters and e‑bikes from eight to six and called for active enforcement and ticketing when groups grow too large.
Board members agreed the concern merits follow‑up. Courtney Allington (S2) said she would like the police department to be queried for records of incidents or accidents involving scooters and e‑bikes along Dye Road last summer, and Chair (S1) offered to check who to contact for crash or incident data. Lynn Davidson (S3) emphasized that while tour operators commonly use waivers, enforcement and visible policing may be needed to change behavior: "Somebody should be going out there a couple of times every day from the police department... as soon as someone is cited and has to pay something, things might start to happen."
Members described typical behaviors they’ve observed — groups riding on both shoulders, stopping in travel lanes and traveling faster than bicycles — and flagged risks at blind turns and narrow shoulders. The board discussed whether tour vans are sufficiently identified for complaints; S3 said vans often lack clear markings and that small marker numbers are unreadable at speed. Members suggested next steps: ask the police chief or municipal manager for crash/incident data; consider adding the correspondence to a future agenda for formal comment to the assembly; and, if appropriate, recommend enforcement or code changes.
The board did not take formal action on the correspondence at the meeting but agreed to place the topic on a future agenda and to request relevant records from municipal staff to inform any recommended code amendments.
