Anonymous
Post 04/05/2023 01:19     Subject: Cities starting to ban scooters. DC to follow?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Can they ride in bike lanes?


Is a scooter a BIKE? No.

Therefore they have no place in BIKE lanes.



Anybody can do anything in bike lanes. You can walk or jog or ride scooters or skateboards or whatever. No one is going to stop you.


If you’re walking or jogging or on a scooter or skateboard in the bike lane I will run your ass over if you’re not keeping pace. I guess that might stop you, hmmmm?


Hey, it’s a tough guy, everybody. Look out. He’s in his bike shorts.
Anonymous
Post 04/04/2023 22:09     Subject: Cities starting to ban scooters. DC to follow?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Can they ride in bike lanes?


Is a scooter a BIKE? No.

Therefore they have no place in BIKE lanes.



Anybody can do anything in bike lanes. You can walk or jog or ride scooters or skateboards or whatever. No one is going to stop you.


If you’re walking or jogging or on a scooter or skateboard in the bike lane I will run your ass over if you’re not keeping pace. I guess that might stop you, hmmmm?


What if someone is biking slowly? Will you run that person down? What if a faster biker runs you down? Is that fair game? What you seem to think is that you deserve your own personal lane on public streets.
Anonymous
Post 04/04/2023 22:06     Subject: Cities starting to ban scooters. DC to follow?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Can they ride in bike lanes?


Is a scooter a BIKE? No.

Therefore they have no place in BIKE lanes.


Paint a scooter right by the picture of the bike in the bike line. Problem solved. And I’m saying that as someone who sometimes bikes and never rides a scooter.
Anonymous
Post 04/04/2023 21:22     Subject: Cities starting to ban scooters. DC to follow?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Can they ride in bike lanes?


Is a scooter a BIKE? No.

Therefore they have no place in BIKE lanes.



Anybody can do anything in bike lanes. You can walk or jog or ride scooters or skateboards or whatever. No one is going to stop you.


If you’re walking or jogging or on a scooter or skateboard in the bike lane I will run your ass over if you’re not keeping pace. I guess that might stop you, hmmmm?



This is why cyclists should be required to carry liability insurance. People shouldn’t have to go to court to get dumb ass cyclists who hurt them to cover their medical bills
Anonymous
Post 04/04/2023 21:18     Subject: Cities starting to ban scooters. DC to follow?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Can they ride in bike lanes?


Is a scooter a BIKE? No.

Therefore they have no place in BIKE lanes.



Anybody can do anything in bike lanes. You can walk or jog or ride scooters or skateboards or whatever. No one is going to stop you.


If you’re walking or jogging or on a scooter or skateboard in the bike lane I will run your ass over if you’re not keeping pace. I guess that might stop you, hmmmm?


What happened to “transportation equity”? Share the road, fattie
Anonymous
Post 04/04/2023 20:26     Subject: Cities starting to ban scooters. DC to follow?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'm not for banning the scooters altogether, but I'd like to see them banned from sidewalks and for riders to wear bike helmets when riding on the street.

I'd also like for DC to designate spaces for scooter parking. Right now they are deployed -- by the scooter providers not just left by riders -- in the middle of sidewalks, blocking ramps at intersections, and in planted tree boxes next to the street. They are parked on top of young tree roots and in flower gardens. Can't DC carve out designated areas where scooters can be left?


The first time someone intersectional gets a ticket for no helmet, the cop somehow ends up in jail and the rest of us know the law will never be enforced again.


You skipped over the part about protests and fires and riots and having the streets shut down for weeks while everything is boarded up out of fear. After that, THEN comes the part about that law never being enforced again.
Anonymous
Post 04/04/2023 20:23     Subject: Cities starting to ban scooters. DC to follow?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Can they ride in bike lanes?


Is a scooter a BIKE? No.

Therefore they have no place in BIKE lanes.



Anybody can do anything in bike lanes. You can walk or jog or ride scooters or skateboards or whatever. No one is going to stop you.


If you’re walking or jogging or on a scooter or skateboard in the bike lane I will run your ass over if you’re not keeping pace. I guess that might stop you, hmmmm?
Anonymous
Post 04/04/2023 17:40     Subject: Cities starting to ban scooters. DC to follow?
Anonymous wrote:I'm not for banning the scooters altogether, but I'd like to see them banned from sidewalks and for riders to wear bike helmets when riding on the street.

I'd also like for DC to designate spaces for scooter parking. Right now they are deployed -- by the scooter providers not just left by riders -- in the middle of sidewalks, blocking ramps at intersections, and in planted tree boxes next to the street. They are parked on top of young tree roots and in flower gardens. Can't DC carve out designated areas where scooters can be left?


The first time someone intersectional gets a ticket for no helmet, the cop somehow ends up in jail and the rest of us know the law will never be enforced again.
Anonymous
Post 04/04/2023 15:12     Subject: Cities starting to ban scooters. DC to follow?
I'm not for banning the scooters altogether, but I'd like to see them banned from sidewalks and for riders to wear bike helmets when riding on the street.

I'd also like for DC to designate spaces for scooter parking. Right now they are deployed -- by the scooter providers not just left by riders -- in the middle of sidewalks, blocking ramps at intersections, and in planted tree boxes next to the street. They are parked on top of young tree roots and in flower gardens. Can't DC carve out designated areas where scooters can be left?
Anonymous
Post 04/04/2023 15:00     Subject: Cities starting to ban scooters. DC to follow?
Bike lanes are the solution, not banning scooters. I have started using them for things like doctor appointments, meeting friends, etc. and they are incredibly useful and better than me driving and faster than public transport often. They seem to be less of a nuisance now than they were when they first came on the scene. People just need bikes lanes. I do use them on sidewalks when it's dangerous otherwise, but I always slow down to a walking pace or get off and walk it when passing people, especially old people.
Anonymous
Post 04/04/2023 14:56     Subject: Re:Cities starting to ban scooters. DC to follow?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Does it really matter? ATVs are banned, but we keep seeing them and police policy doesn't allow them to chase them down to enforce.


You can say this about lots of laws but we still have them. It us what makes society work. Why lower ourselves to the scofflaws?


Having and not enforcing laws like that is much worse for society.

But at least Metro is free these days!
Anonymous
Post 04/04/2023 14:36     Subject: Re:Cities starting to ban scooters. DC to follow?
Anonymous wrote:Does it really matter? ATVs are banned, but we keep seeing them and police policy doesn't allow them to chase them down to enforce.


You can say this about lots of laws but we still have them. It us what makes society work. Why lower ourselves to the scofflaws?
Anonymous
Post 04/04/2023 14:34     Subject: Re:Cities starting to ban scooters. DC to follow?
Anonymous wrote:Cyclists and people on scooters should be required to have liability insurance, just like motorists



This
Anonymous
Post 04/04/2023 13:39     Subject: Cities starting to ban scooters. DC to follow?
I hope not. My cat sitter uses it to get to her jobs.
Anonymous
Post 04/04/2023 13:26     Subject: Cities starting to ban scooters. DC to follow?
Ban the cars while we're at it.