Staff and students will not find e-scooters around campus anymore. The area around NAIT is now a no-parking zone.
NAIT Protective Services contacted Lime representatives to have the scooters removed after Lime Technology Inc. included the institution as a park and ride hotspot without permission from NAIT.
“When I learned that the e-scooters were alive and present here on NAIT, it came as a bit of a surprise to me,” said Officer Darrin Kirk, manager of Protective Services. “Because at no point in time had we at NAIT received any requests for permission to operate on NAIT property.”
NAIT student Melissa Everhart is glad to see that the scooters have been removed from campus. She said they are a hazard to pedestrians.
“It was annoying when you were walking and they come up behind you and the whole crowd has to shift over.”
Melissa Everhart
Her encounter happened on a NAIT sidewalk, which is not a legal place to ride in Edmonton. The scooters can drive on roadways less than 50 kilometres per hour, bike lanes and shared-use paths.
In Edmonton, the two approved e-scooter vendors are Lime Technology Inc. and Bird Canada Inc. They have similar rules for using the scooters.
- $1 – $1.15 to unlock
- 30 – 35 cents per minute to scoot
- 20 km/h in hotspot zones in Edmonton
- Eight km/h in grey zones
The hotspot zones are the downtown core and the Old Strathcona area. Outside of these zones, scooters are in a grey area and will only drive at the minimum speed, and they cannot be parked.
