As the number of electric scooters across Los Angeles has spiked, so has the number of tickets issued to their riders.
The Los Angeles Police Department wrote 800 tickets to riders on the zippy electric vehicles between January of 2018 and mid-July, and cited them for more than 900 violations, according to city data analyzed by The Times.
Nearly two-thirds of the violations cited a California law that bans motorized vehicles on sidewalks.“If you are riding a scooter on a sidewalk, you will get a ticket,” said Paul Koretz, the most outspokenon the Los Angeles City Council, at a news conference Thursday in the Fairfax district. “It’s time to stop.”
Officers targeted scooter riders in the area for eight hours Thursday as part of the city’s effort to cut down on collisions and injuries, said Capt. Elaine Morales of the LAPD’s West Traffic Division From the start of the year through late May, the most recent data immediately available, the Los Angeles Fire Department reported a total of 160 incidents involving electric scooters. Those included 59 cases in which someone was taken to the hospital by paramedics or EMTs, and 21 cases in which a patient was treated without being transported.
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