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All eight members of the city council who were present voted to cancel the city's short-lived agreement with Lime, which has 154 scooters in the city. The company was given two days to remove the scooters, WABC 7 reported.
The scooter program was introduced less than a month ago.
Calls for removing the scooters came within an hour after Nelson Miranda Gomez was struck by a tow truck making a turn around 8 p.m. Nov. 20. The boy's death has prompted other area communities to revisit plans to create their own local scooter ride-share programs, which have grown in popularity in the region since Hoboken began its program earlier this year.
"We're disappointed that the Elizabeth City Council has decided to suspend the e-scooter pilot program, but we hope to work with the city on a revised program," Lime said in a statement.
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