What e-scooters can do for L.A.

Re “E-scooter foes go to court,” editorial, Oct. 26

The L.A. Times’ calming editorial on the e-bike and e-scooter controversy is well stated. But too little was said as to why twowheel transportation is of the moment for Los Angeles.

Cities that rank high in bicycle friendliness also tend to rank just as high in quality-of-life surveys. A look at the top-rated cities in the Copenhagen Bicyclefriendly Cities Index 2017 supports this correlation.

No question, bikes and scooters enhance people transport. In addition, a robust biking culture is good for business, good for the environment and good for health.

Bikes and scooters — electric or otherwise — make sense for cities. Still, enforcement of laws for e-bike and e-scooter transportation is reasonable and proper, but using legal means to banish these devices from our city is like throwing out the baby with the bath water. William Solberg Los Angeles

The phenomenon of e-scooters created another scourge not yet exposed by the media.

E-scooter companies are recruiting people to become their battery chargers. Most of these “chargers” are renters who do not bother to wait for their landlord’s consent for this activity. More troublesome is the fact that the e-scooter companies do not require recruits to present written consent from his or her landlord as a pre-condition.

Bird requires a renter to secure the authorization of the landlord for such activity, but it does not precondition the contractual relationship on the written consent from the charger’s landlord.

It is only a matter of time until another classaction lawsuit will be filed against the e- scooter companies, this time by landlords. Nitza Ben-Yehuda Beverly Hills