"A number of people - people at the UW, City, and a couple of state electeds - have been working on changing this for a couple of years."
During the course of those discussions, have there been ideas presented as to where else mopeds would allowed/required to park? On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Robbie Webber <[email protected]>wrote: > At this time, state law allows mopeds to be parked anywhere that bicycles > can be parked on public right of way. The University can regulate this in > ways that the City cannot, because for parking purposes, they are considered > private property. > > A number of people - people at the UW, City, and a couple of state electeds > - have been working on changing this for a couple of years. As part of the > joint UW/City bicycle task force, I asked the City lobbyist to push this at > the Capitol. > > A bill was introduced in the last legislative session to allow local > municipalities to regulate moped parking, but it went nowhere. As you may > know, legislation dies with the legislative session. It has not been > reintroduced, as far as I know. > > Once thee state law is changed to allow local control over moped parking, > the City can pass the appropriate parking ordinances. > > Bike Fed, and maybe city people (?) are working on getting this changed, > but I don't know where it stands. > > Robbie Webber > > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 3:50 PM, tim wong <[email protected]> wrote: > >> also, can we do what the university does and designate certain bike racks >> as not for mo"peds." >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org > >
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