Newport Beach campus e-bike parking ban frustrates neighborhoods

A student e-bike ban in Newport Beach continues to trickle into the neighborhood, with new street signs posted in the residential area around Ensign Intermediate School banning e-bike parking.

Since Newport-Mesa Unified School District trustees voted this year to ban younger students from riding e-bikes on campus, students are riding and parking them in the neighborhood instead.

“They would park in the walkway, and then they’d fall in the grass,” homeowner Nancy Barfield said, noting the bikes take up street parking.

In August, long lines of e-bikes were chained together in front of walkways and mailboxes near Ensign Intermediate…

Story continues

TRENDING NOW

LATEST LOCAL NEWS