A Senate transportation committee unanimously approved a bill Thursday that would square the hundreds of e-scooters dropped on Salt Lake City streets last summer with state code.
Utah law currently prohibits scooter ridership on roads with posted speed limits higher than 25 mph or more than four lanes wide — descriptors that apply to many of the Salt Lake City streets where they’re commonly used.
His proposal, which will now move to the full Senate, would regulate scooters similarly to bicycles and would bump the speed restriction to 35 mph. It also looks to establish restrictions on drinking or transporting an open alcoholic beverage while operating a scooter and on operating a scooter with more people on it than it’s been designed for.