Rented e-scooters, e-bikes increasingly threaten blind Portlanders as safeguards fail

Editor’s Note: You can report e-scooters and e-bikes parked blocking the sidewalk by calling 311, emailing 311@portlandoregon.gov, using PBOT’s online reporting form or filing an ADA Title II complaint. Rod Barker was excited when he heard rentable e-scooters were coming to Portland in 2018. “I thought, ‘Oh, here’s an alternative mode of transportation that doesn’t…