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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whenever I am in Old Town I see about as many correctly parked as wrongly parked.  Despite the lack of good places to park them.  A lot of the people complaining about them don't actually know how they are supposed to be parked - they can be next to a lamppost, not blocking the right of way, but if they are on the sidewalk "oh they are ugly, its clutter"

They are in fact no more ugly than parked cars.  Which are everywhere.   So then people shift back from "ugly" to "they block the sidewalk"  People who don't spend anytime dealing with improving sidewalks around the city, getting police to enforce against drivers who block crosswalks, etc.

People say its about the handicapped - where are these activists when the problem with pedestrians signals that are too short for a disable person cross the street comes up?  Where are they when visually impaired people fear crossing the speedways that afflict our city?

I am all for making the program work better. But most of the complainers are just people who hate the new, who hate the growth in tourism, and who have little interest in alternatives to cars.

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Listen, people are not using them as alternatives to cars, that’s a false ideology on a grand scale and a marketing scheme to try to excuse a business from dumping their product on the streets with no license, no regulation, and no upkeep.  No one is commuting on them on the regular.  Tourists aren’t coming just to DC or Alexandria over another destination because they can ride a scooter.  People are riding them for fun and sh!ts and giggles and it’s all super fun until someone gets hurt.

Sorry you don’t like the look of parked cars, but cars are docked or else they’re towed.  I can’t park my car in the middle of the sidewalk, bike path, in your yard, on a trash can, in the middle of the street.  Get real.

Sorry you are trying to explain to handicap people what kind of standard they need to meet for you to have them be justified in their complaints.  Do you ask the same of minorities when they complain about race issues?  You need to check yourself on that.[/quote]

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