Evansville Eases E-scooter Regulations
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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowThe Evansville Board of Public Works has passed new regulations for e-scooters. Our partners at WEHT-TV report city leaders are starting to fine tune current regulations now that the pandemic is slowing down.
A few weeks ago, the Evansville City Council reduced the insurance requirement for e-scooter companies, according to the station.
“There’s been some concern about how the scooters were parked and where they were operating but I think a lot of those issues were ironed out and it appears that most of the operators are complying with the local ordinance,” said Marco DeLucio, corporate counsel for the city of Evansville.
The station reports the Board of Public Works has now polished the wording of the regulations in place.
“City council passed an ordinance a couple of weeks ago reducing the insurance requirements from a million dollars and five million dollars in the aggregate to a million dollars and two million in the aggregate. So the change today in the documents was to reflect that,” explained DeLucio.
Local scooter companies says the new insurance reduction cuts down insurance costs by more than half.