How to keep safe among e-scooters and e-bikes as you travel (www.seattletimes.com)

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Those things are a terror. People rent them, and then they drop them off randomly when they arrive at their destinations, usually in the pedestrian parts of the roads. Walking there gets challenging even when you are agile, but for elderly or handicapped people this means they have to step on the road to get around the mess.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Yeah I hate it when people just leave them in the middle of the sidewalk like they're the main character in a video game or something.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

This is why some cities have banned the rental services. Paris has plenty of electric scooters, but they banned the rental services. Keeps the benefits of the scooters for micro mobility, but no scooters lying everywhere.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

One parking space = 10 e-scooters?
Cities are infested by cars.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

The cars are usually not thrown across the walkway.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Depends where you live. There are people who think cycle lanes and sidewalks are free parking as long as you leave certain arbitrary sized gap for a person to pass.

However it's often not enough to squeeze through with a pram or a wheelchair. If it were a scooter, i could easily move it myself to make way, but with cars i have to go onto the road to go around the car. Cars are definitely more dangerous.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

as long as you leave certain arbitrary sized gap for a person to pass.

Not even that.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

The article makes it sound more like a car problem than anything else. If you stay alert, off your phone, and don't ride above your skill level in the bike lane, you will be fine.

People ride on the sidewalk in sharrows and death-gutter style bike lanes.

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