{"id":1207,"date":"2019-02-12T05:31:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T05:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2019\/02\/12\/lege-trend-anatomy-of-statewide-scooter-regulation-bill\/"},"modified":"2019-02-12T05:31:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T05:31:00","slug":"lege-trend-anatomy-of-statewide-scooter-regulation-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/lege-trend-anatomy-of-statewide-scooter-regulation-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Lege TREND. Anatomy of  statewide scooter regulation bill."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee is considering statewide regulation of scooters that would:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>treat scooters like bikes<\/li>\n<li>reduce confusion about the rules of riding e-scooters<\/li>\n<li>promote\u00a0sustainable forms of transportation<\/li>\n<li>No scooter can be used by more people that it was designed for.<\/li>\n<li>Scooters should be ridden as close as practical to the right-hand curb or edge of the road, unless passing another vehicle traveling in the same direction, making a left-hand turn or when needing to avoid an object, vehicle or pedestrian.<\/li>\n<li>Scooters should not travel faster than 15 mph.<\/li>\n<li>A person shouldn\u2019t carry an item while riding a scooter if it prevents them from keeping at least one hand on the handlebars.<\/li>\n<li>Riders should be old enough to operate a vehicle.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wapp.capitol.tn.gov\/apps\/BillInfo\/default.aspx?BillNumber=SB1107&amp;GA=111\">SB 1107 (2019 | TN )\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/news\/2019\/02\/08\/bill-looks-set-electric-scooter-rules-tennessee\/2801337002\/\">Tennesean |\u00a0Bill would set electric scooter rules in Tennessee, hampering cities looking to set own regulations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee is considering statewide regulation of scooters that would:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>treat scooters like bikes<\/li>\n<li>reduce confusion about the rules of riding e-scooters<\/li>\n<li>promote\u00a0sustainable forms of transportation<\/li>\n<li>No scooter can be used by more people that it was designed for.<\/li>\n<li>Scooters should be ridden as close as practical to the right-hand curb or edge of the road, unless passing another vehicle traveling in the same direction, making a left-hand turn or when needing to avoid an object, vehicle or\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-issue","category-bicycle","category-local-government","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}