Washington D.C. witnessed its first e-scooter-related fatality in September. It may have been the first of its kind in the country, per Curbed D.C.

District lawmakers are now considering a nighttime ban on dockless mobility devices similar to the one Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms implemented Thursday.

When Nashville experienced its first e-scooter rider die in a collision in May, city officials quickly outlawed the fledgling mobility option, according to The Verge.

Other e-scooter-related fatalities have been reported in San Diego, Los Angeles, and Cleveland.

But according to industry observers and our research, Atlanta appears to be the only U.S. city to have seen at least three e-scooter riders die on its streets—four now, if including the recent death of a man run over while riding in nearby East Point, just south of downtown.

E-scooters have operated on Atlanta streets since May 2018, but all fatalities have occurred in the past three months.

Atlanta Bicycle Coalition leader Rebecca Serna told Curbed Atlanta that even one e-scooter-related death is unacceptable.

But what many people—city officials included—appear to be overlooking, she said, is that automobiles are far more deadly than any alternative mode of transportation.

“Having the context that 115 people died in one year of car crashes in Fulton County and 95 in DeKalb puts things in perspective,” she said. “Even one [death] is too many, but let’s recognize that our streets are unsafe for everyone, not just for scooters.”

Mobility advocates in Atlanta have criticized what they consider a lackadaisical approach to regulating the rentable vehicles, which many have deemed a nuisance and public safety hazard.

Months before 20-year-old Eric Amis, Jr. was killed by a speeding SUV driver in May, city officials enacted the first dockless vehicle regulations, which, among other restrictions, outlawed scooting on sidewalks.

Amis, though, wasn’t riding on the sidewalk; he was on a street without a bike lane.

When 37-year-old William Alexander died after being hit by a bus in Midtown last month, local lawmakers called for more infrastructure that caters to alternative modes of travel. Not a bike lane where he was killed, either.

City leaders again sounded the alarm when Amber Ford, 34, died last week after being hit by a driver who allegedly fled the scene of the crime. Again, no bike lane.

The “larger solution” to the problem Mayor Bottoms promised after Ford’s passing has not yet surfaced. In the meantime, she relieved the city’s planning department of its authority to permit more dockless devices—e-scooters and bikes—and banned their use between the hours of 9 p.m. and 4 a.m.

The executive order she issued Thursday also calls for “an accelerated plan for changes to our streets, creating safer, dedicated spaces for cyclists and scooter riders,” as well as a revised permitting process.

When exactly Atlantans might begin to see these ramped-up efforts to create new “complete streets”—infrastructure upgrades that sacrifice car lanes in exchange for Lite Individual Transportation (LIT) lanes and wider sidewalks—is yet unclear.

In May, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti suggested that LIT lanes and other infrastructure improvements could be created with the funding help of e-scooter companies.

Atlanta officials have not yet responded to Curbed’s questions regarding whether a similar approach is being considered here.