At least yours all stand at the _side_ of the walkway!
We have way fewer of those, but all the idiots using them just leave them where ever the fuck they feel like to.
I’ve tossed more than one scooter to the side because we couldn’t get passed with our baby stroller
Here in Boringway these wer in the top agenda of our media and our news outlets both locally and countrywide. I myself follow the news persistently but i have never seen laws upon laws happens so fast because some e-wheels
Scooters are not a problem, but drivers are, because lots of them are schmucks
I have nothing against them
but those bloody drunk unprotected drivers driving in groups of 4 breaking stopping or accelerating where they shouldn’t while having a blast
They are just making me remember our drunk driving times one bikes we just weren’t so bold to drive on the road
Seems like an easy problem to put up with, given some of the alternatives.
I’d rather see this than a 5-story parking garage full of SUVs and 8-cylinder trucks.
Edit: I watch *Not Just Bikes* and think to myself “We have even managed to mess up basic habitation here in North America. Quite badly.”
Here in Germany we have the same problem. Those sh*t scooters are always blocking the sidewalk
Same shit in Finland. Terrible parking and dumb scooter drivers.
Absolute cancer of Prague.
Dumped (literally, some people seem to find it hard to even park them vertically) everywhere, driven without any care for traffic laws or pedestrians, popular amongst drunk Brits on stag parties.
Some ended up thrown in Vltava even …
Sometimes they are a problem, but I think it is reasonable cost to take for easier transport. Having said that sometimes its cheaper to just take uber than rent those, which is ridiculous!
Most are not street legal in the Netherlands.
They’re everywhere in Berlin, especially at tourist hotspots.
And most of them laying in the middle of the side walk, not to mention the undefined liquids and other substances on them.
London is doing a trial in limited areas (started a year ago and due to finish November). One good policy is first time riders needing to do training on how to ride safely, hope includes how to park well.
Main reason is environmental but they are worried about injuries.
Those scooters are inherently unsafe and being driven by teenagers who lack any kind of sense in traffic. There’s been a boom of scooter-related injuries which unnecessarily burden the healthcare system. Also they are parked in completely random locations, in many cases even on the middle of a bike track. It would be much better if they switched completely to bikes and assigned designated parking zones. It’s not a big deal for the companies to rent a few parking slots here and there.
We had this problem in Paris. Now you must park the scooter in dedicated spots. If you don’t, you can’t end the rental. If the spot is full, you can’t either. It works very well!
They’re here in the Uk. Saw one dumped in the middle of a path, knocked over, stuff all over it.
Knew exactly what it was ofc. I picked it up to stand it against the sidewalk wall, it screamed at me. Dropped it, left it there and swore never to help another one since lmao.
Big city problems I guess. None of that here in my town because you can’t rent scooters.
yea the streets of Rome are so full of electric scooters like that aahahah
Oh yes, i´m from Austria. They are everywhere, the drivers often do not care about others. You find this scooters laying on the ground behind every 6th corner.
Why all these people in the photo are walking in the bike path?
The saddest thing is that even in a city as flat as a mirror, people will still use electric scooters, electric bike instead of the good old human power which would be much better both, for the user (sport) and for the environment (batteries).
This is amazingly organized and thoughtful compared to how people leave them in the US. In the cities that still have them, people will literally just leave them laying down across a sidewalk. I’ve seen them piled up that way. God help anyone in a wheelchair or using a walker who needed to get down the sidewalk. I really like having them as a transportation option and have used them many times but people here are too thoughtless and self-centered to properly park them. Some services have gotten better at requiring you to park them in a designated zone and that seems to have improved things a little bit.
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Rentable scooters are the biggest sh*t ever…
In many big US the scooters have become a scourge
At least yours all stand at the _side_ of the walkway!
We have way fewer of those, but all the idiots using them just leave them where ever the fuck they feel like to.
I’ve tossed more than one scooter to the side because we couldn’t get passed with our baby stroller
Here in Boringway these wer in the top agenda of our media and our news outlets both locally and countrywide. I myself follow the news persistently but i have never seen laws upon laws happens so fast because some e-wheels
Scooters are not a problem, but drivers are, because lots of them are schmucks
I have nothing against them
but those bloody drunk unprotected drivers driving in groups of 4 breaking stopping or accelerating where they shouldn’t while having a blast
They are just making me remember our drunk driving times one bikes we just weren’t so bold to drive on the road
Seems like an easy problem to put up with, given some of the alternatives.
I’d rather see this than a 5-story parking garage full of SUVs and 8-cylinder trucks.
Edit: I watch *Not Just Bikes* and think to myself “We have even managed to mess up basic habitation here in North America. Quite badly.”
Here in Germany we have the same problem. Those sh*t scooters are always blocking the sidewalk
Same shit in Finland. Terrible parking and dumb scooter drivers.
Absolute cancer of Prague.
Dumped (literally, some people seem to find it hard to even park them vertically) everywhere, driven without any care for traffic laws or pedestrians, popular amongst drunk Brits on stag parties.
Some ended up thrown in Vltava even …
Sometimes they are a problem, but I think it is reasonable cost to take for easier transport. Having said that sometimes its cheaper to just take uber than rent those, which is ridiculous!
Most are not street legal in the Netherlands.
They’re everywhere in Berlin, especially at tourist hotspots.
And most of them laying in the middle of the side walk, not to mention the undefined liquids and other substances on them.
London is doing a trial in limited areas (started a year ago and due to finish November). One good policy is first time riders needing to do training on how to ride safely, hope includes how to park well.
Main reason is environmental but they are worried about injuries.
Edit: Here are some usage stats.
https://tfl.gov.uk/cdn/static/cms/documents/london-escooter-rental-trial-headline-metrics-period13.pdf
Those scooters are inherently unsafe and being driven by teenagers who lack any kind of sense in traffic. There’s been a boom of scooter-related injuries which unnecessarily burden the healthcare system. Also they are parked in completely random locations, in many cases even on the middle of a bike track. It would be much better if they switched completely to bikes and assigned designated parking zones. It’s not a big deal for the companies to rent a few parking slots here and there.
We had this problem in Paris. Now you must park the scooter in dedicated spots. If you don’t, you can’t end the rental. If the spot is full, you can’t either. It works very well!
Example: [https://www.google.fr/maps/@48.827994,2.3216628,3a,75y,36.93h,55.99t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shVfbXi2wwwFUrWWmJmofVw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192](https://www.google.fr/maps/@48.827994,2.3216628,3a,75y,36.93h,55.99t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shVfbXi2wwwFUrWWmJmofVw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192).
They’re here in the Uk. Saw one dumped in the middle of a path, knocked over, stuff all over it.
Knew exactly what it was ofc. I picked it up to stand it against the sidewalk wall, it screamed at me. Dropped it, left it there and swore never to help another one since lmao.
Big city problems I guess. None of that here in my town because you can’t rent scooters.
We had them in Thessaloniki.. It didn’t go very [well](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mfUcAPIG-Y)….
yea the streets of Rome are so full of electric scooters like that aahahah
Oh yes, i´m from Austria. They are everywhere, the drivers often do not care about others. You find this scooters laying on the ground behind every 6th corner.
Why all these people in the photo are walking in the bike path?
The saddest thing is that even in a city as flat as a mirror, people will still use electric scooters, electric bike instead of the good old human power which would be much better both, for the user (sport) and for the environment (batteries).
This is amazingly organized and thoughtful compared to how people leave them in the US. In the cities that still have them, people will literally just leave them laying down across a sidewalk. I’ve seen them piled up that way. God help anyone in a wheelchair or using a walker who needed to get down the sidewalk. I really like having them as a transportation option and have used them many times but people here are too thoughtless and self-centered to properly park them. Some services have gotten better at requiring you to park them in a designated zone and that seems to have improved things a little bit.
Lol no – Not Like This
Portugal.