{"id":155383,"date":"2021-03-24T06:31:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T10:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=155383"},"modified":"2021-03-24T10:52:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T14:52:43","slug":"electric-scooters-banned-in-colonial-city-until-regulated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/03\/24\/electric-scooters-banned-in-colonial-city-until-regulated\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric scooters banned in Colonial City until regulated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Patinetas-electricas-en-Zona-Colonial-El-Caribe-e1616597553232.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-155453\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The popularity of electric scooters created problems in the Colonial City as these swerved around sidewalks and streets, affecting pedestrians. Now, Santo Domingo&#8217;s city government says these are banned until regulation is drafted on their use, responsibilities, and consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As explained in a press release, the measure is taken by common agreement with the companies and individuals who rent the scooters to visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a joint meeting, the suspension was determined until the spaces where their safe use will be allowed are defined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It is our commitment to promote order, ensure safety and peaceful coexistence of our citizens and visitors to any point of our capital city,&#8221; says the city government note. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/destacado\/suspenden-temporalmente-uso-de-patinetas-y-motocicletas-electricas-en-la-zona-colonial\/\">El Caribe<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23 March 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The popularity of electric scooters created problems in the Colonial City as these swerved around sidewalks and streets, affecting pedestrians. Now, Santo Domingo&#8217;s city government says these are banned until regulation is drafted on their use, responsibilities, and consequences. As explained in a press release, the measure is taken by common agreement with the companies &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/03\/24\/electric-scooters-banned-in-colonial-city-until-regulated\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155383"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155454,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155383\/revisions\/155454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}