I love bikes and scooters and I think car infrastructure is a virus. Still, I think the impact of the “move fast and break things” stance dockless scooter companies like Veo and Lime have (and municipalities allow them to have), where they let people end their rides wherever sucks, and municipalities need to push back. On multiple occasions I’ve had to move scooters and ebikes out of the way for people with limited mobility, and I have to move scooters off the bike path on my commute pretty much every day.
Literally all it takes is to take away a couple car parking spots per block and allocateift for dockless parking.
fuck cars and scooters. Pointless pseudo-progressive technology when bikes exist. Any distance you can “scoot” you can also bike…
But they won’t. They will drive instead.
As much as you may detest them, they ARE removing cars from the roads and they are an excellent first/last mile combo for public transport.
I find it hard to imagine people forgoing a car ride in favour of a scooter ride. I just find that really hard to believe.
Why? It’s a great middle point between bikes and cars:
- You’re still getting fresh air
- You still don’t have to exert yourself
- You still don’t have to hunt and pay for a parking spot and can instead just put it next to the entrance of where you’re going.
- You can still get to your destination kinda quickly
I think you two are talking about different things. I think they’re talking about the rental ones.
Scooters say DO NOT RIDE ON SIDEWALK but everyone rides them on the sidewalkk. Fuck those things and fuck the cities for not enforcing that or creating better transportation infrastructure.
To be fair, they do take up space. But that’s only because sidewalks tend to be made so narrow.
Cars suck for cities, but the scooters are also being left in a pile in the middle of the side walk. I hate those scooters. Useless e-waste tripping hazards
Edit: I mean the rental ones that are littered everywhere
