to ride on private routes like here at the queen elizabeth olympic park in london, where they are geofencedited, the law varies hugely around the world. these things can reach 30 miles an hour, which is very cool, or very dangerous, depending on your experiences with them. not long ago, presenter emily hartridge died while riding an e—scooter. it was the first fatal collision involving one in britain. there involving one in britain. have been similarfatal cas around there have been similarfatal cases around europe. in france, there have been three e—scooter deaths, and they are completely illegal in los angeles. e—scooters, e—skateboards, there is a lot of confusion over the legality of these new modes of transport. as omar mehtab has been finding out. here, at one of the busiest intersections at london, the metropolitan policep are on the lookout for electrically powered scooters. these eco—friendly and easy to ride vehicles have exploded in popularity and are rapidly transforming the make—up of road traffic in cities around the world. however, as spencer pointed out earlier, with e—scoote

to ride on private lands like here at the queen elizabeth olympic park in london, where they're geofencedited, the law varies hugely around the world. one of the issues is that these things can reach speeds of over 30 miles an hour, which is very cool, but also very dangerous, again, depending on your experiences with them. not long ago, presenter emily hartridge died while riding an e—scooter. it was the first fatal collision involving one in britain. there have been similarfatal cases around europe. in france, there have been three e—scooter deaths in the last four months, and there have even been deaths in los angeles where these are completely legal. so, whether it's e—scooters, segways, one—wheelers or e—skateboards, there's a lot of confusion over the legality of these new modes of transport. as omar mehtab has been finding out. here, at one of the busiest intersections in london, the metropolitan police are on the lookout for electrically—powered scooters. these eco—friendly and easy to ride vehicles have exploded in popularity and are rapidly transforming the make—up of road traff

i would really advise commission to continue to look at geofencing and other informal ways that we can remove from the traffic apps, that we all use including our neighbours on the west side as they plow through our neighborhood to get to the freeway. so we want you to continue many things because it's e emblematic and we need control of the safety of our neighborhood. >> the last two people who have turned in a speaker for this topic. >> i just want to state some things for the record from this project. first, i think it does kind of make sense to close the southbound portion of tavvia street, a frontage road between hayes and lynd new yoron, becaue there's a cafe that extends outside and not really -- you can go down to laguna to go down to fell but there's a concern about northbound, about how we have taxis and others that have access from the freeway and octavia. so i'm expressing concern there be consequences by closing the east side of what i call the frontage road to octavia boulevard. you need for of a loading zone on hayes street because it's one big parking lot because it wil

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could they put something in there like that, some kind of geofence that prevents these guys have using them on sidewalks. >> so my understanding of gps technology is it's not accurate enough especially in the downtown where there's buildings that might be blocking the signal with the satellite? you'll see trips sometimes that go out to the bay, which clearly isn't happening, but it's a misfunction of the gps, however, that isn't to say that it won't be prevented from proposing those innovative solution if there is a proponent that has that sort of technology? we will certainly look favorably upon that. >> if we don't have that technology near term, we've got to figure out a better enforcement strategy. i was working in the middle of that zone where they were dumped, and those things were buzzing along the sidewalks constantly. so if we don't have a technical or a technological solution, it seems we have to commit resources to get these off the sidewalk if they don't have helmets. i just think we're creating an unsafe condition for these folks, and i'm not sure we're getting enough mobi

so one of the things we've done is we've been able to have the ability to geofence a certain area and inform residents if we have a concern about a crane within their area. we can actually as we did with hurricane irma direct people to move from one side of a building to another. >> and one of the things about this storm is could really slow down over the peninsula and inch its way up which means hurricane force winds, the pounding rain could be there for some time which hampers your efforts. what message to do you want to get to people about getting ready now because there might be an extended period of time where you can't reach them. >> absolutely. preparation is key, and we ask our residents, our citizens to help us. help us give us the time necessary to get to you. now, we will do everything within our power. we've even gone to the extent of buying additional vehicles that will allow us in certain circumstances to get out in higher winds than we normally would if the emergency dictates so. these vehicles are armored vehicles. and we will do everything within our power to get to y

to ride on private lands like here at the queen elizabeth olympic park in london, where they're geofenced presenter emily hartridge died while riding an e—scooter. it was the first fatal collision involving one in britain. there have been similarfatal cases around europe. in france, there have been three e—scooter deaths in the last four months, and there have even been deaths in los angeles where these are completely legal. so, whether it's e—scooters, segways, one—wheelers or e—skateboards, there's a lot of confusion over the legality of these new modes of transport. as 0mar mehtab has been finding out. here, at one of the busiest intersections in london, the metropolitan police are on the lookout for electrically—powered scooters. these eco—friendly and easy to ride vehicles have exploded in popularity and are rapidly transforming the make—up of road traffic in cities around the world. however, as spencer pointed out earlier, with e—scooters freely available to buy in stores, many people don't know that they're actually illegal to ride on public streets. when i bought it online they sh

to ride on private lands like here at the queen elizabeth olympic park in london, where they're geofenced again, depending on your experiences with them. not long ago, presenter emily hartridge died while riding an e—scooter. it was the first fatal collision involving one in britain. there have been similarfatal cases around europe. in france, there have been three e—scooter deaths in the last four months, and there have even been deaths in los angeles where these are completely legal. so, whether it's e—scooters, segways, one—wheelers or e—skateboards, there's a lot of confusion over the legality of these new modes of transport. as omar mehtab has been finding out. here, at one of the busiest intersections in london, the metropolitan police are on the lookout for electrically—powered scooters. these eco—friendly and easy to ride vehicles have exploded in popularity and are rapidly transforming the make—up of road traffic in cities around the world. however, as spencer pointed out earlier, with e—scooters freely available to buy in stores, many people don't know that they're actually ille