No scooters on the sidewalks, and no scooters in Alamo Plaza.
News Radio 1200 WOAI reports those are the first ideas floated by City Council's Transportation Committee on what should be done to regulate those electric 'dockless scooters' which have become all the rage downtown.
About 250 scooters from two companies have been dumped on downtown streets in the last several months without any regulation or oversight.
The result has been sidewalk pedestrians bowled over by scooters, scooters running red lights, and scooters left piled up in front of popular downtown destinations.
And Councilman Roberto Trevino says a third company is planning to place scooters in neighborhoods where the method of transportation makes sense, like near UTSA, in the Medical Center, and on the commercial area on Broadway near the Witte Museum.
The scooters can be picked up by anybody wherever they are found, and deposited whenever the rider gets to the destinations. That has led to scooters blocking the entrances to restaurants and hotels.
A rider downloads the scooter company app, right now the scooters are operated by Bird and Lime, and uses the app to 'unlock' the scooter for a cost of $1, and then pays 15 cents a mile to ride.
Other concerns involve scooter parking, and mainly liability if a scooter operator, who is not required to have any insurance, runs over a pedestrian or runs into a vehicle.