{"id":3914,"date":"2022-11-09T11:11:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T07:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=3914"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:46:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:46:53","slug":"new-rules-for-e-scooters-in-place-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2022\/11\/09\/new-rules-for-e-scooters-in-place-on-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"New rules for e-scooters in place on campus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Marwa Abou Jokh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013&nbsp;The American University of Sharjah\u2019s Office of Safety and Crisis Management launched a campus-wide awareness campaign on electric scooter safety Nov. 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the email sent by OSCM, the campaign follows a recent rise in concern about the safety of scooter users and the general community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The regulations include provisions that e-scooter drivers should:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>only operate on sidewalks;<\/li><li>avoid high speeds;<\/li><li>Keep adequate distance between them and others; and<\/li><li>cross streets at designated crossings<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The policy also prohibits riders from taking passengers, bringing scooters into buildings, or using mobile phones while riding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The email added that the OSCM will be cooperating with the AUS Security Department to implement the rules and that any breach will be met with repercussions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Marwa Abou Jokh UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013&nbsp;The American University of Sharjah\u2019s Office of Safety and Crisis Management launched a campus-wide awareness campaign on electric scooter safety Nov. 3. According to the email sent by OSCM, the campaign follows a recent rise in concern about the safety of scooter users and the general community. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33,32,17,21],"class_list":{"0":"post-3914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"tag-aus","9":"tag-campus","10":"tag-community","11":"tag-safety"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}