Anonymous wrote:What about the dumb people riding them with their kids on them at the same time? With neither wearing a helmet? Crazy dangerous, those things weren’t built for two people.

The best is when you are walking and one comes up behind you “ding ding ding ding ding” like I’m supposed to jump out of the way of you on an electric scooter on the side walk? Nope. Get off and walk the thing around pedestrians.

I walk 7+ miles a day to and from work, electric scooters are a menace.

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Can you provide data to support your claim that scooters are for people who are goofing off or people who don't want to walk 0.7 miles (15 minutes) but would do so if there weren't scooters)?

just visit any DC college campus. 200 yard walk, if thereis a scooter in the sidewalk, the student will grab it, rid up the hill or across the campus, and the leave it on the sidewalk for the next person to trip over.

my biggest gripe isn't the scooters but how they end up strewn all over the place.

while the DC ruls are great, but whos going to regulate the scooter speed Are cops going to be shooting radar guns at them... how are they going to enforce the rules. DC police can't get their own shit together let alone thousands of scooters...

Here's what I do when I encounter in a scooter in the sidewalk where it might block people: I pick it up and move it out of the way.

I'm guessing you're not trying to navigate a sidewalk in a motorized wheelchair.

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Can you provide data to support your claim that scooters are for people who are goofing off or people who don't want to walk 0.7 miles (15 minutes) but would do so if there weren't scooters)?

just visit any DC college campus. 200 yard walk, if thereis a scooter in the sidewalk, the student will grab it, rid up the hill or across the campus, and the leave it on the sidewalk for the next person to trip over.

my biggest gripe isn't the scooters but how they end up strewn all over the place.

while the DC ruls are great, but whos going to regulate the scooter speed Are cops going to be shooting radar guns at them... how are they going to enforce the rules. DC police can't get their own shit together let alone thousands of scooters...

Here's what I do when I encounter in a scooter in the sidewalk where it might block people: I pick it up and move it out of the way.

Anonymous wrote:scooters are crazy dangerous because people who aren't good at them ride them. They are dangerous on the sidewalk. they are dangerous in the street. And the person who says 0 people have been killed by scooters is absolutely wrong.

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Can you provide data to support your claim that scooters are for people who are goofing off or people who don't want to walk 0.7 miles (15 minutes) but would do so if there weren't scooters)?

just visit any DC college campus. 200 yard walk, if thereis a scooter in the sidewalk, the student will grab it, rid up the hill or across the campus, and the leave it on the sidewalk for the next person to trip over.

my biggest gripe isn't the scooters but how they end up strewn all over the place.

while the DC ruls are great, but whos going to regulate the scooter speed Are cops going to be shooting radar guns at them... how are they going to enforce the rules. DC police can't get their own shit together let alone thousands of scooters...

Here's what I do when I encounter in a scooter in the sidewalk where it might block people: I pick it up and move it out of the way.

So do I. But you know that not everyone is able to pick them up - they can be quite heavy for many people.

I wouldn't be so against the scooters if they had stations where you picked them up and left them. As it is now, they're just junk and toy littering.

Anonymous wrote:scooters are crazy dangerous because people who aren't good at them ride them. They are dangerous on the sidewalk. they are dangerous in the street. And the person who says 0 people have been killed by scooters is absolutely wrong.

Anonymous wrote:Do they really need to be replaced every three months as PP said? If so, that doesn’t seem very environmentally friendly. I’d like to see data on that.

Otherwise, it seems like another great idea that people are ruining because a large portion of people are just inconsiderate narccisists, like the people that dump the scooters mid sidewalk to block wheelchairs and the disabled; speed down pedestrian sidewalks and knock people over; or drive down the middle of the street going against traffic. It’s sad when we have to legislate to guard against people just being selfish jerks.

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Here's what I do when I encounter in a scooter in the sidewalk where it might block people: I pick it up and move it out of the way.

and if I stopped to pick up every piece of trash that someone could have easily deposited in the trash can rather than the sidewalk, I'd never to get work on time.

Again, just have a place for them to be "stored" between uses. society is lazy. toss trash out the windows, drop their dockless bike and dockless scooter where ever they want, since its not their responsibility, someone will come along and clean up behind them. is that really the way we want to live...

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Can you provide data to support your claim that scooters are for people who are goofing off or people who don't want to walk 0.7 miles (15 minutes) but would do so if there weren't scooters)?

just visit any DC college campus. 200 yard walk, if thereis a scooter in the sidewalk, the student will grab it, rid up the hill or across the campus, and the leave it on the sidewalk for the next person to trip over.

my biggest gripe isn't the scooters but how they end up strewn all over the place.

while the DC ruls are great, but whos going to regulate the scooter speed Are cops going to be shooting radar guns at them... how are they going to enforce the rules. DC police can't get their own shit together let alone thousands of scooters...

Here's what I do when I encounter in a scooter in the sidewalk where it might block people: I pick it up and move it out of the way.

So do I. But you know that not everyone is able to pick them up - they can be quite heavy for many people.

I wouldn't be so against the scooters if they had stations where you picked them up and left them. As it is now, they're just junk and toy littering.

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Here's what I do when I encounter in a scooter in the sidewalk where it might block people: I pick it up and move it out of the way.

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Anonymous wrote:

Can you provide data to support your claim that scooters are for people who are goofing off or people who don't want to walk 0.7 miles (15 minutes) but would do so if there weren't scooters)?

just visit any DC college campus. 200 yard walk, if thereis a scooter in the sidewalk, the student will grab it, rid up the hill or across the campus, and the leave it on the sidewalk for the next person to trip over.

my biggest gripe isn't the scooters but how they end up strewn all over the place.

while the DC ruls are great, but whos going to regulate the scooter speed Are cops going to be shooting radar guns at them... how are they going to enforce the rules. DC police can't get their own shit together let alone thousands of scooters...

Here's what I do when I encounter in a scooter in the sidewalk where it might block people: I pick it up and move it out of the way.