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A group of California residents have filed a Lime class action lawsuit alleging that the scooter company and the City of San Diego fail to keep crosswalks, transits stops, and sidewalks accessible for people with disabilities due to the parking of scooters.
The lawsuit accuses the defendants of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act, the California Disabled Persons Act, and the Unruh Civil Rights Act.
Scooter companies, which have popped up in recent months, use these public locations as places to store their bikes and electric scooters available for rent.
The Lime scooter class action lawsuit points out that the companies named as defendants have blocked the sidewalks with their “dockless” system that allows a rider to leave a scooter along curbs or public walkways at the end of the ride.
The plaintiffs in the Lime scooter class action lawsuit argue that private scooter companies have been able to use the public commons for their own businesses purposes, blocking locations that are critical for disabled accessibility.
The Lime electric scooter class action lawsuit says that the current scooter storage solution goes beyond that of a nuisance since those with severe visual impairments and those people who use walkers or wheelchairs are not able to safely or freely travel on public walkways.
The Lime scooter class action lawsuit argues that in addition to storing the scooters in the middle of sidewalks or at the corners or intersections, making it difficult for those with impairments to use the public walkways, that the fact that these scooters are used on sidewalks further blocks disabled access.
The lawsuit alleges that these scooter riders, who rent the devices for a certain period of time and drop them at a new location, turn the sidewalk into a vehicle highway instead of a space reserved for pedestrian access.
Both Bird Rides Inc. and Lime Razor USA LLC as well as the City of San Diego are named as defendants in this class action lawsuit.
The lead plaintiff in the Lime Scooter class action lawsuit, Alex Montoya, is a triple amputee who is unable to drive.
He states in the Lime class action lawsuit that he chose to live in the East Village of San Diego so that he could easily access pedestrian walkways.
The plaintiff argues that due to the popularity of these scooters, he finds himself dodging these devices at street crossings and on sidewalks from riders approaching at rapid rates of speed with no warning.
The Lime Scooter class action lawsuit claims that Montoya now avoids walking because of the fear of being hit by someone riding a scooter.
With a slower reaction time and ability to walk, the plaintiff argues that he relied on these sidewalks as his main mode of transportation that he can no longer access since he doesn’t feel safe walking.
The Lime scooter class action lawsuit seeks to represent a proposed Class of all individuals with visual or mobility impairments who have been denied access to pedestrian crossings, walkways, transit stops, curb ramps, and sidewalks in San Diego.
The proposed Class in the Lime electric scooter class action lawsuit are represented by Michael I. Neil, Robert W. Frank, Matthew R. Souther, and Phillip E. Stephan of Neil Dymott Frank McCabe & Hudson and Ann E. Menasche and Ben Conway of Disability Rights California.
The Lime Electric Scooter Class Action Lawsuit is Alex Montoya, et al. v. City of San Diego, et al., Case No. 3:19-cv-0054-JM-BGS, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.
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27 thoughts onLime Class Action Lawsuit Says Scooters Block City Sidewalks
Totally count me in on this one. They are a mess and hindsight, beaten up within weeks here in San Diego. They are an obstruction to pedestrian and vehicular traffic. Left out on the street, in front of residential areas, and they fast & SILENT which is horrible for anyone that walks on a sidewalk.
I hurt my hand as five kids went past me with no regard and those things are silent. No one bothers to say “on your left” or “on your right” anymore! They’re nothing but a nuisance and as much of a deadly weapon as a drunken driver, with the exception most folks have their ears plugged into their music and disregard all laws, safety, environment and to live peaceably. They rot within months. Can’t imagine they do to beaches and our water supply.
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yes please add. These are such a pain. people domt k ow how to follow thw traffic rules.. the kids have these littered throughout our neighorhoods and the companoes take no responsibility for them.. i charged birds for awhile but 75% are broke and should be picked up and repaired or junked instead of just being written off as missing yeat they are litter everywhere.
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I asked you two months ago about doing this in Los Angeles….WTF Just in two blocks down by the Venice pier I counted 200 Dockless bikes and scooters. They are blocking everything! You can’t walk a block without having to step over or around these…
I am a paraplegic who uses a manual wheelchair. I live in San Diego by State college. I have had scooters blocking the sidewalk in my way and I could not go around them so had to go back home. There were times I had to resort to going into the street in busy traffic because a scooter blocked my path. Once I fell out of my wheelchair because a scooter lay across the sidewalk and I was going down a hill and had to stop abruptly. Its becoming a nightmare to go anywhere. I have dramatically changed my lifestyle because I don’t want to risk serious injury or have to return home because of these scooters in my way. Add me absolutely
I live in AZ an we have these all over. I have a lot of trouble at times getting up and down handicapped areas when these things are all around them and some people even leave them in parking areas
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I trip an failed on the scooter on the side wake coming from the doctor office it’s bad when you can’t walk down the street.