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Skate bowl Scooters on sidewalks? takes bow A state law effective Oct. 1 would make it legal to ride Supporters, fans praise scooters and bikes on sidewalks, unless local jurisdictions overhauled,upgraded skate park — PAGE 13 prohibit it. That’s what OC officials plan to do — PAGE 3
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New safety regs weighted for popular electric scooters Potential new legislation to be explored by Ocean City ahead of Oct. 1 state law By Bethany Hooper Associate Editor (Aug. 15, 2025) With a new state law allowing bikes and scooters to ride on sidewalks beginning Oct. 1, the Ocean City Police Commission voted unanimously Monday to have the city solicitor work with police to develop a recommendation to prohibit such activity in town. City Manager Terry McGean said the legislation allows local jurisdictions to impose their own rules if they don’t want to abide by the state’s. “The state law says they are allowed, unless the local jurisdiction prohibits them,” he said. The recommendation was part of a larger discussion this week about the proliferation of electric scooters in town. Sgt. Nathan Kutz, assistant traffic safety coordinator, attributed the increase to improved technology and lower prices. “When it comes to scooters, the police department and the traffic safety unit have recognized the increased number of electric scooters in town,” he said. “As technology improves, specifically the lithium-ion batteries, you see the price decrease. In fact, the cost of an electric scooter at Walmart is less than a bicycle.” Electric scooters were now a popular form of transportation for J-1 foreign students. Kutz said that trend was substantiated to a degree by data the police department has collected in recent years. In terms of scooter collisions, for example, the city reported 11 in 2023, 36 in 2024 and 41 to date in 2025. He
added the police department has also collected a list of “hotspots” in town where more scooter-related crashes have occurred. Those areas include 142nd Street, Jamestown Road, 80th Street, 48th Street, 32nd Street, 18th Street, 5th Street and North Division Street. Kutz said the Ocean City Police Department has conducted numerous details, including one funded by a Maryland Highway Safety Office grant, to target pedestrians, bikes and scooters. Of those 69 details, he said, the department has spoken with 308 people and issued 96 citations. More specific police details targeting just bikes and scooters took place on four dates this summer, Kutz added. He said the department recorded 220 bikes and scooters using the highway on those dates. “About a third are scooter operators on the highway,” he said. “It’s much more than when I started at the police department in 2012.” While these scooter patrols found that most bikes and scooters traveled in the right direction along the highway, Kutz said several failed to stop at red lights. Mayor Rick Meehan added that safety concerns regarding electric scooters on the highway continued to be voiced among Ocean City’s yearround residents. “Probably the No. 1 concern, whenever I talk to residents, is about what we’re going to do about scooters …,” he said. “We all know it’s a major accident waiting to happen.” Meehan then urged the police department to step up its enforcement efforts. He said he wanted a message that resonates with scooter users and encourages them to use lights and See ELECTRIC Page 6
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Two people on scooters travel down the bus lanes of southbound Coastal Highway at 28th Street. The popular and affordable electric scooter has become ubiquitous in Ocean City this summer as foreign students on J-1 work visas use them to get around town.
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Bus service prepares for upcoming festivals Transportation officials talk deployments, bus coverage as fall concert series nears By Brian Shane Staff Writer (Aug.15, 2025) Ocean City’s bus system is bouncing back from years of declining ridership, as transit officials gear up for a heavy bus deployment during this fall’s music festivals. When back-to-back concerts pack Ocean City for six days this fall, the city will roll out as many as three dozen buses at peak times. Officials are crediting a new split-shift strategy that frees drivers to cover both day and night shifts. Bus deployment during Oceans Calling (Sept. 26-28) and Country Calling (Oct. 3-5) will see about 26
buses going out in the late morning and early afternoon, with about 37 running the evenings. That’s eight more buses than they used last year. Transit Manager Rob Shearman also said they’ll have contracted buses coming to assist. However, in the days leading up to the concerts, bus service will be “running extremely lean” as drivers are moved around to accommodate festival coverage, according to Shearman. “I hope that it’s not so lean that it generates a lot of complaints,” he said at Tuesday’s meeting of the city’s transportation committee. “We’ll just have to monitor it. We’re going to do the best can with what we’ve got, but we know that the focus is the concert days themselves. We just need to be prepared for running on a skeleton crew the rest of the week just to make
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this happen.” Bus ridership had been declining the last three summers, to the point where transit officials had budgeted for a revenue drop from bus fare. Shearman attributed the 2022-2024 decline to a staffing shortage. Figures shared Tuesday show ridership is now up 5%, a bump that Shearman attributed to yet another resort music festival, Boardwalk Rock, which brought thousands of people to downtown from May 17-18. The staffing issue has also been handled with 57 drivers now on the payroll, up from 49 last year. Parking revenue up Also discussed Tuesday is the fact that Ocean City’s parking revenue is up 15% over last year, going from $3.48 million at this point last year to $4 million year-to-date in 2025. The reason for this is mostly because the public has begun to embrace the ParkMobile app, officials said, as physical parking kiosks have been removed throughout town, save
for the inlet lot. This year will be the last for those kiosks, which have seen revenue fall by half compared to last year. City Manager Terry McGean said there’s been much less public pushback over the phasing out of the parking kiosks than anticipated. “I expected we would just get killed over that. That just really hasn’t happened,” he said in the meeting. Shearman also reported positive news for the transportation budget: they’re looking at an overall cash infusion of more than $528,000, which is partially the result of a 10% increase in federal grants that filter through the state’s transit authority. Other savings have been realized through some reduced preventative maintenance expenses. It’s also the result of saving money, from Ocean City not having to pay its share of another articulating bus; the city had asked for grants to buy three of those 60-foot buses but only got the money for two.
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