The City of Missoula will wait until next year before deciding if, and how, electric scooters will be allowed on local streets.

But city officials will press ahead with controls for private e-bikes. The city council and staff have been looking at the prospect of e-bikes and scooters coming to Missoula as an alternative mode of transportation.

The scooters are already becoming popular in other Northwest cities, although they’ve also come with problems.