Scooting
Around Downtown Copyright
2004 by WTOP Radio
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May 18, 2004
WASHINGTON
-- There's a new way to avoid the foot traffic and scoot
around Downtown Washington.
City Scooter Tours will be offering a motorized, narrated
tour starting May 23, visiting over 50 of the city's
most famous tourist attractions, including the Capitol,
White House, Lincoln Memorial, and Washington Monument.
City
Scooter Tours is the first in the nation to offer motorized
electric scooter tours.
Stephen
Marks with City Scooter Tours says they are designed
to make it easier for the elderly and people with limited
mobility to see the sights.
"These
scooters are kind of the Hummer. They have big, large
wheels. They are made to kind of hop over grass, not
to limit people to the sidewalks", says Marks.
He also says that anyone who sits on one of these scooters
is considered a pedestrian.
The
company says they have ordered 50 additional scooters
for Memorial Day weekend, when thousands of veterans
are expected to descend on D.C. for the World War II
Memorial dedication.
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