Love them or hate them, scooters are on the rise in San Francisco and regulation is coming.
Unless the San Francisco Metropolitan Transportation Agency establishes a permit application process by the end of May, the three companies distributing scooters across the city will have to stop.
Supervisor Aaron Peskin's scooter ordinance -- which passed the Board of Supervisors' Land Use and Transportation Committee unanimously -- would make it illegal to distribute scooters without a permit.