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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm in Old Town and it is not a disaster.  The only disaster is the old cranky people that won't stop complaining about them on Next Door.  Relax and go for a ride.

And YES they are an alternative mode of transportation.  I have ridden them over to Del Ray and plenty of people ride them to the metro.

And FFS stop saying you "almost got hit" by one.  [/quote]

Nope, they are are a nightmare.  I counted 25 of them by the King Street metro the other day, piled up on top of one another all over the sidewalk.  I saw several on the Parkway bike path south of OT this weekend (what were they even doing there).  I never, ever see a kid wearing a helmet on one.  In a placed that regulates store signage, paint colors, political sign placements, I cannot understand why the city is so lax on these scooters.  I wonder what the kickback is.

When you rode your scooter over to Del Ray, where did you leave it?  How long do you think it just laid there until it was picked up, or did you even care?  [/quote]

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They're trashing up areas like Alexandria. Just because the first PP hasn't seen piles of them doesn't mean those piles aren't there.

And in DC Ive seen many tourists people ride them two to a scooter. Weaving and wobbling and laughing. I've seen riders who nearly rode right into intersections without stopping -- because they didn't seem to know how to slow the scooter down. You can say the problem is the riders and not the concept of having the scooters but at least in tourist areas most riders are going to be tourists paying little attention and just having fun. In places like bike lanes with which they've got zero experience. I wonder what regular cyclists on DC bike lanes and the bike paths around Alexandria think of them.

Oh, and advocates for people who use wheelchairs or who have other mobility issues have been quoted in articles complaining how scooters block sidewalks when left there. But in fairness, that also applies to docklesd bike share bikes.[/quote]

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