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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you either need to limit them to bike lanes OR limit their speed by a lot. People driving a motorized vehicle on the sidewalk 20-25 mph are dangerous, full stop. Especially when there are small children and dogs and people in mobility devices as well. Kids and dogs tend to shift direction quickly and don’t always have great awareness of their surroundings. Someone in a mobility device needs to always be given right of way. Scooters need to be slower or banned from sidewalks.

And before you yell at me about cars: speed limits for cars should also be lower and I think private cars should be banned from very dense urban neighborhoods with good public transportation access (you need to ensure it stays accessible to people with limited mobility). But I think that’s a separate conversation. I’ll note that this thread was started with discussion of Paris banning scooters. Paris recently moved aggressively to limit cars in many parts of the city, to great benefit of people who live there. So it’s not like banning scooters is a “pro-car” position.[/quote]

Rental scooters (which is what Paris banned) already are speed-limited to 10 mph in DC. And rental scooter parking can be geo-fenced, so the rental company doesn't stop charging you until you have returned your scooter to a designated scooter parking area.

For people on scooters to ride in bike lanes, there need to be bike lanes.

Cars could also have speed-limiters. Why don't we do a lot more of that?[/quote]

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