It’s bike season, and you can see two kinds of people around Seattle. Those with their own ride, who almost invariably wear a helmet and stick to the rules of the road. And those on rented e-scooters and e-bikes with no brain buckets and little regard for niceties such as safe sidewalks. And that disparity is likely to worsen when thousands of tourists pack the city during the World Cup matches next month. It’s past time Seattle takes stronger steps to ensure rider and pedestrian safety in its micro-mobility program. Related OK, corral: Ease bike, scooter tensions in Seattle with better parking | Op-Ed Ending the scooter-driven chaos on Seattle’s sidewalks | Op-Ed In a 2024 report to the Washington Traffic Safety Commission, University of Washington researchers noted that e-scooter-related medical encounters in Seattle increased from nine between 2018 and 2020 (when e-scooter share programs were introduced in the city) to 273 between 2021-2023.…