The Dunedin City Council is addressing concerns from Mosgiel residents about mobility scooter behaviour by holding a safety workshop later this month.
The safety workshop run by the council and Mosgiel RSA follows concern that mobility scooter users were endangering the safety of pedestrians on Mosgiel footpaths.
Council community road safety adviser Deborah Palmer said the workshop would be about "how to safely use the scooters and how everyone can share the footpath".
"We are not trying to blame anyone. We are just trying to make sure that everyone is aware of how to work together to ... [keep footpaths safe]," she said.
She hoped between 50 and 100 mobility scooter users would attend and the council would consider running a similar workshop in South Dunedin, where there was also a large number of mobility scooter users.
The workshop comes after Mosgiel resident Janice Deuster told the Mosgiel Taieri Community Board meeting in May that she was "concerned about mobility scooters around the town and the safety of the users and the poor old pedestrians".
"I'm not against them. It's just there does not seem to be much in terms of guidelines or rules about how they are managed," she said.
The workshop is being held on October 30 at Mosgiel RSA between 1.30pm and 3.30pm and would be attended by Age Concern, Mosgiel community constable Jackie Ballam and Mobility Scooters Otago owner-operator Tony McCarthy.
