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Show Wed/Thurs/Fri, July 4-6, 2018 The Park Record A-17 Dockless electric scooters arrive in Salt Lake City Bird is the word as city hopes to work with company Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY – Salt Lake City residents have a new mode of transportation available: rentable electric scooters. Bird Rides Inc.’s scooters hit Salt Lake City streets on Thursday, June 28. The company’s scooters are battery-powered and have a beefier, heavier frame than a typical children’s scooter, the Deseret News reported . They can reach speeds up to up 15 mph and have a range of about 15 miles on a single charge. Interested riders can rent the scooters through Bird Rides’ app. Riders are charged $1 when the rental begins, and 15 cents per minute of use. While some people say they are excited over an eco-friendly alternative to cars, others have expressed outrage and made threats of litigation. After the ride, users are asked to leave scooters off sidewalks or any place where they will obstruct traffic, but there is no system in place to ensure this happens. Other cities have reported issues with similar business models. The city is hoping to work with Bird, like it did with the GreenBike bike-share program, to make sure the system works as yet another option to get around downtown, said Julianne Sabula, transit program manager. “In a conceptual sense, we’re very excited about this kind of innovation,” Sabula said. “We’re all about finding new ways for people to get around without having to get in a car.” Sabula said she and her office are aware of the problems that other cities have had with business models similar to Bird. Those issues include collisions involving scooter riders and pedestrians, scooters operating in roadways and hindering auto traffic flow and, perhaps most notably, the scooters being left lying on sidewalks, roadways, private property and other places where they impede pedestrian traffic or create headaches for business and property owners. In San Francisco, officials issued a cease-and-desist order to Bird and two other companies earlier this month. PRICE REDUCED $10 0,0 0 0 BE AUTIFU LLY BUILT PARK M E ADOWS HOM E –3 1 4 0 C R E S T L I N E D R I V E– 4 Bedrooms | 4.5 Bath | 4,280 Square Feet | 3-Car Garage | $2,490,000 Owners say let’s SELL this beautifully built Park Meadows home. If you are looking for a very well constructed home that is extremely low maintenance with main floor living this is the home you need to view. Solid hardwood flooring, 4 fireplaces, office, beautiful open kitchen open to the great room, 3-car garage, very low maintenance yard. 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Chris Mantas had bought the Employees and his wife, 18-acre property to expand his Emily, encouraged Mantas to All Truck & Car business. change construction plans. Associated Press “We were just waiting until “We got together with our SALT LAKE CITY – An old the baby birds were gone, and group and decided to work cottonwood tree that is a nest- then we were going to tear out around the trees and have the ing home to red-tailed hawks the trees,” Mantas said. hawks become part of our near the Salt Lake City airport Federal law prohibits tam- home,” Mantas said. “As auto has been spared demolition af- pering with the nests of migra- recyclers, we get called `junkter a neighbor persuaded the tory birds while the offspring yards’ and told that we don’t property owners to leave it are present, Mantas said. care about the environment. alone. Kirby urged Mantas to save But we do care and want to do Catherine Kirby has been the trees and birds, leading our part.” visiting the urban nesting site Mantas to do more research. He Kirby was thrilled with the for years to watch hawks raise learned the site was also home decision. their young in the spring, and to great horned owlsBROKER that take “It sets a1986 good example,” FULL SERVICE MORTAGE SINCE she sprang into action after over the spot for breeding in the Kirby said. “If more businesshearing four trees would be winter. es did what he was doing, even torn down to make way forSERVICE an “It’sMORTAGE an Airbnb,” Mantas SINCE FULL BROKER if it’s 1986 just saving two or three expansion of an auto recycling said, referring to the short-term trees in an industrial area, it business, The Salt Lake Tri- lodging service. would change the environment bune reported . 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