Police in at least one northeast Johnson County city have been fielding a spike in calls from residents worried about an issue that had previously gone relatively unnoticed — disruption and potential danger from motorized bicycles and scooters, often called e-bikes and e-scooters. They’re among a cohort of area cities figuring out new policies to regulate the vehicles.
The Prairie Village Police Department has seen the calls for service involving electric bikes and scooters grow by nearly five times this year in comparison to 2024.
“We’ve gotten a lot of complaints, pretty much on a daily basis, of people on e-bikes, e-scooters, maybe not obeying traffic laws, maybe driving a little bit recklessly on the sidewalks, not paying attention to their surroundings,” Captain Josh Putthoff said…