Rental scooters returning to Dallas with restrictions
Rental scooters will return to Dallas in 2023. However this time, there will likely be a number of adjustments from only a few years in the past. Kathryn Rush, the chief planner for transportation for the town of Dallas, has some necessary early particulars.
DALLAS – Electrical rental scooters and bikes will return to Dallas in 2023. However this time, there are some rules designed to stop what occurred just a few years in the past.
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Dallas tried permitting scooters in 2018 however ended up banning them in 2020 due to security considerations.
In accordance with Kathryn Rush, the chief planner for transportation for the town of Dallas, the purpose this time round is to supply a extra secure, orderly, and equitable system.
“So, folks ought to see so much much less chaos and so much much less litter on the streets,” Rush mentioned.
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A few of the methods the town plans to attain which might be by permitting simply three firms – Lime, Chicken and Superpedestrian. There will even be fewer scooters on the streets to make issues extra manageable.
Rental scooters, bikes anticipated to return to Dallas in weeks
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“If the demand is there, although, firms will be capable of improve the variety of scooters on the streets,” Rush mentioned.
The scooters and e-bikes will solely be accessible for lease from 5 a.m. till 9 p.m. Rush mentioned that’s to assist minimize down on among the joyriding and celebration use – issues that aren’t meant to be for transportation.
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They will even have a most pace restrict of 20 mph or 10 mph in areas that the town deems slow-ride zones like Deep Ellum. The rental firms can remotely implement these pace limits and mechanically shut the scooters down in Dallas’ no-ride zones.
“Sidewalks have all the time been unlawful. It’s nonetheless unlawful. However we’re engaged on offering and putting in extra bike lanes and extra services to make it safer for folks to journey these gadgets within the streets,” Rush mentioned.
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Firms will face harder penalties for not following the town’s rules and riders might face fines of as much as $20 for not parking the scooters accurately once they’re finished. Riders will even have to supply a photograph of their parking spot.
“There will likely be schooling on the gadgets exhibiting how to try this in addition to on our web site. However on the finish of each journey, earlier than a journey could be ended, riders must take a photograph exhibiting how they parked the machine and if it isn’t parking accurately they could possibly be fined $20,” Rush mentioned.
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Dallas additionally hopes to distribute the scooters extra. There will likely be a restricted quantity accessible in central Dallas and a minimum of 15% will likely be positioned in what the town describes as fairness alternative zones.
“These are low-income and majority-minority areas. So though we can have fewer numbers of scooters on the streets, we hope that entry to them will likely be higher than it was earlier than,” Rush mentioned.
“We’re going to be pushing this a lot wanted transportation mode out into neighborhoods that desperately want them, that possibly did not get to see them the primary spherical,” Dallas metropolis councilmember Omar Narvaez informed FOX 4 in December.
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Earlier than the ban in 2020, Dallas additionally had points with among the scooters and bikes ending up in rivers and floodplains.
“We’re additionally being very diligent about placing up indicators in addition to geofencing round parks and trails in order that it’s tough to even get these gadgets near form of these pure and guarded areas,” Rush mentioned.
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The brand new scooters and e-bikes are anticipated to be again on Dallas streets throughout the subsequent few weeks.
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Joe Mixon ran for three touchdowns to extend his TD streak to six games since coming back from injury, Derek Barnett returned a fumble 28 yards for a score, and the Texans beat the Cowboys 34-10 on Monday night.
The Texans (7-4) stopped just the second two-game losing streak of CJ Stroud’s young career while maintaining a two-game lead in the AFC South.
Houston pulled away in the second-half a week after a 26-23 last-play loss to Detroit at home, when the Texans let a 23-7 half-time lead get away from them.
“It’s not as bad as it ever seems, and it’s never as good as it ever seems,” Stroud said. “Those type of games, you have to come out with a win, especially going up like that at the half [against the Lions]. But what are we going to do about it?”
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Amid a woeful season for the Cowboys (3-7) on the field, debris fell from their stadium’s retractable roof as it was opening a few hours before the game. There was no delay and no injuries were reported, just another mishap to foreshadow a fifth consecutive defeat for a team that lost five games total in each of the past three seasons.
Cooper Rush threw a 64-yard touchdown pass to KaVontae Turpin but lost his second start since Dak Prescott’s season-ending hamstring injury.
The Dallas losing streak is their longest since a seven-game skid in 2015, and the Cowboys dropped to 0-5 at home. Dallas are the first team in NFL history to trail by at least 20 points in six consecutive home games, including last season’s wildcard playoff loss to Green Bay, according to Sportradar. The Cowboys had reached the playoffs in each of their previous three seasons, but that run is all but over.
“Well, they better be frustrated,” Dallas head coach Mike McCarthy said. “I mean, we’re all frustrated. I think there’d be something wrong if they weren’t frustrated. So just very honest with everything and stay in tune with what’s right in front of us. And that’s the only way I’ve ever done it.”
The Cowboys were down 20-10 early in the fourth quarter when Barnett knocked the ball out of Rush’s hand. Dallas rookie left tackle Tyler Guyton caught it and was trying to run when Jalen Pitre knocked the ball loose again. Barnett scooped up the ball and scored, although he almost stepped out of bounds.
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“The play he made really changed for game for us,” Texans coach DeMeco Ryans said. “It flipped the momentum. It got everybody juiced up on the sideline. It was just a huge play.”
Earlier, the Cowboys appeared to have pulled within a touchdown on a 64-yard field goal from Brandon Aubrey, but Barnett was penalized for slapping Terence Steele on the rush. Dallas erased the points by taking the penalty, but Rush’s fourth-down pass from the Houston eight-yard line was incomplete on the only good scoring chance of the second half for the the Cowboys.
“The defense played with elite energy,” Ryans said. “One big play that we gave up. Like to have that one back, but overall I think our guys played really well.”
Texans receiver Nico Collins returned after missing five games with a hamstring injury and took a screen pass 77 yards to the end zone on the first play of the game, only to have it called back because of an ineligible receiver downfield.
That possession ended with a touchdown anyway on Mixon’s 45-yard sprint up the middle, and he ran wide for a one-yard score and a 14-0 lead. Mixon had 109 yards rushing on the day and set up a field goal with a 37-yard catch-and-run on a screen.
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“I really love that first play because it showed what we could do in this game,” Ryans said. “Even though it got called back, I just told all our guys, ‘We can go score on these guys again. Just get it in your mind we’re going to score again.’”
Already without Prescott, the Cowboys lost tight end Jake Ferguson to a concussion and perennial All-Pro right guard Zack Martin and left guard Tyler Smith to ankle injuries. Rush was sacked five times, three on the same possession when Martin and Smith were injured.
Stroud, who has been in a mini-slump, threw for 257 yards while avoiding any mistakes after an early interception on fourth down. It was the third time in five games he has gone without a touchdown pass, and he has two TDs and three picks in that stretch.
Rush was 32 of 55 for 354 yards with a touchdown and an interception. Turpin had three catches for 86 yards.
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