Downtown and University of Tennessee area residents, stakeholders and advocates for more alternative-transportation options are invited to a Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021 public meeting on proposed changes to the City’s Shared Dockless Scooter program. 

The hour-long meeting is at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the East Tennessee History Center, 601 S Gay St. City officials want to hear people’s opinions on the scooter pilot program and proposed changes, and the meeting will include a Q&A session. 

Proposed changes to the ordinance regulating shared dockless scooters will be presented to City Council for its review later this year. Currently, the City is operating under a temporary pilot program with two electric scooter share programs.  

Once the pilot program ends and the ordinance is updated, additional vendors may be allowed to offer services, and the range of potential services could be expanded. For example, one change being proposed is to allow vendors to offer both ride share scooters and ride share bicycles. 

Another proposed change would convert a small number of downtown on-street parking spaces into corrals for electric scooters. This would further encourage scooter passengers to only ride on the streets, not sidewalks – scooter riding is and will continue to be prohibited on sidewalks. 

The corrals for parked scooters also would address complaints that riders sometimes leave their scooters in the wrong places and clutter sidewalks or block access to curb cuts. 

On hand to hear public comments and answer questions will be: 

• Carter Hall, Policy and Business Innovation Lead, City of Knoxville

• Sgt. John Coward, Knoxville Police Department
 
• Micromobility expert Chris Cherry, associate professor, University of Tennessee Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Cheyanne Woodward, Government Partnerships East, Superpedestrian

• Joey Nagey, Veo Operations Manager 
 
Additional information on Knoxville’s Shared Dockless Scooter pilot program is posted at KnoxvilleTN.gov/scooters. 

The City of Knoxville ensures meaningful access to City programs, services and activities to comply with Civil Rights Title VI and ADA Title II laws and reasonably provides translation, interpretation, modifications, accommodations, alternative formats, auxiliary aids and services. To request language translation services, contact Diversity and Inclusion Officer Tatia M. Harris at [email protected] or 865-215-2831. For disability accommodations, contact City ADA Coordinator Stephanie Brewer Cook at [email protected] or 865-215-2034 at least 72 hours before the meeting.