I had a problem was a big baseball player back in high school.

It is getting harder and harder to move around downtown Indianapolis and our next guest has had about enough of it.

93 W I B.C it is the Kendall and Casey show.

I'm Rob Casey's out today.

Jerry Lopez, Inde Spanglish inn for Casey and Robert Evans joins us on the W IBC hotline a fabulous new piece taking on the

scooter industry in downtown Indianapolis. Saw it yesterday at that colts bears game.

They're everywhere, they're cluttering, they're bad for the city, and I think they're part of a bigger plan to get rid of cars in downtown Indianapolis.

Robert Evans joins us now in the WIBC hotline. Hotline. His new piece in the I. B.J. titled

Scooters are causing ADA violations for city government. Robert, you say

these scooters are bad news for the city of Indianapolis. I'm with you.

Let's talk about the damage these things are causing.

Yeah, it's not really about damage and I don't have a problem with the existence of the

scooters. It's just, you know, I think a lot of people forget is that sidewalks are public services, no different than fire or water.

And the way that they've gone pretty much unregulated since the city licensed the businesses back in 2018,

has really kind of left to create the situation

where you know as you guys mentioned earlier a lot of the sidewalks are blocked a lot of

the access ramps are blocked and you know you look around you think, how does a person in a wheelchair or a walker

get past these, right?

And this is just a convenience thing, this isn't just a transit preference, this is Americans with Disabilities Act law that we have to keep

these things open for people. All right so when you engage with the city on this which

you have before what sort of response do you get from them because I think your

thing is not hey we got to get rid of the

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