Atlanta continues enhancing scooter, bike safety as drivers adjust to road safety improvements

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — Between cars, bikes, scooters, pedestrians and even driverless Waymos, Atlanta’s streets are getting more hazardous by the day.For those not protected in a car, every trip can turn dangerous in an instant.Riders have described seeing close calls with scooters or bikes and cars.“Ever since that, it’s kind of like took me a step back from actually like, all right, let me just go day by day. We look at the cars before I even look to where I’m going, because I just, you know, I’m saying I’d rather be alive,” said Brad Ford, a scooter rider.Abida Liana said she knows the dangers all too well. Liana said she was involved in a hit-and-run incident on a scooter that sent her to the emergency room.“I was going home and it was just a narrow road, but she probably didn’t see me because on the phone,” said Liana.“So it’s stuff like that where I don’t feel safe,” said Ford.“That’s why I kind of have to like yield my own self. I go slow whenever I’m about to make