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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Paris is voting Sunday on whether to ban scooters. People are sick of them — they ride too fast, they go on the sidewalks, they leave their scooters everywhere. Copenhagen, Helsinki have imposed new restrictions. London wants to require people to get licenses. I would love it if DC banned them outright. They are a menace. [/quote]

While we’re at it, let’s ban cars too. They are a menace that kill tens of thousands of the living population and are making the planet unlivable for everyone that comes after.[/quote]

I was just in Manhattan for a week and walked everywhere. Not once did I fear for my life from a car, but the scooters and bikes in the bike lanes were a menace. No one obeyed the lights so stepping off the curb into the bike lane to cross the street was terrifying, and not only right after the light changed. My son narrowly missed getting hit very hard by a scooter, and I had two close calls with bikes that would have ended badly because they were going so fast. I would much rather walk amongst cars where the behavior of the drivers is more predictable and most follow the lights. It was the opposite for the bikes and scooters. [/quote]

Cool story, bro. But it’s better that hard data guides public policy and not your feelings. And there isn’t a lot of hard data that shows that scooters or cyclists come anywhere near to representing the threat that cars and other motor vehicles pose to the safety of the general public.[/quote]

Data? There’s about 40 traffic deaths per year in DC out of *billions* of trips taken. And about a quarter of those are the pedestrian/cyclist/scooter person’s fault, according to the police. Another quarter are because the driver was drunk, which DC practically encourages with its traffic cameras. Another quarter are speeding drivers. The rest are medical emergencies, hit and runs, otherwise unknown.[/quote]

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