If you live in Seattle you have surely seen them. Or ridden them.

Ubiquitous green Lime e-scooters have exploded on our streets, zipping around residential neighborhoods and downtown alike.

Since they were introduced to Seattle in 2017, usage has skyrocketed, with a million rides in June alone on all Lime vehicles — an 84% increase from the previous June — The Seattle Times’ Nicholas Deshais reported. A much smaller number of Bird e-scooters and bikes are also in circulation.

In my South Seattle neighborhood, for months I have watched with growing concern as kids on e-scooters — often riding two per scooter, and sometimes three — speed along Rainier Avenue or Martin Luther King Way, sometimes against the light, sometimes against traffic and never with a helmet. It’s heart-stopping to wa

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