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The Houston City Council is expected to vote Wednesday on a measure that would ban the use of electric scooters during the overnight hours across the city, in an effort to reduce traffic collisions and fatalities involving the scooters.

The policy, set for the council's agenda on Wednesday, would implement a curfew from 8 p.m.-4 a.m., preventing the use or distribution of the e-scooters citywide. It would also ban the distribution of scooters from "temporary structures." It also creates a pathway for Houston police and the city's parking authorities to impound scooters in violation of the proposed ordinance.

According to the city, 78% of emergency medical services' calls related to e-scooters occur between 8 p.m. and 4 a.m. Since 2021, authorities have s

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