I really hope the police crack down on people using them on the road. I’ve seen so many lately without any lights on or reflective gear either hit a car or the car hit them. They tend to jump on and off the path which doesn’t help.
The government have been utterly useless in creating legislation for scooters. I own one, and only use it on the roads and abide the law of the roads. I basically ride it as if I were driving, albeit I try to hug the side of the road.
Fellow scooter users however often have no regard for anything other than speed. Weaving on and off the pavements, jumping red lights and just behaving like yobos.
I’d like to see some laws put in place to make it safer for everyone. Insurance should be a requirement, as should helmets and lights. Obviously id like a total ban on using them in pedestrian areas like pavements.
Anyone found to be operating one in a reckless manner or breaking the rules should face hefty fines and risk of forfeiting their scooter.
Unless they’re the ones the council gets money for they’re banned. Weird.
I hardly see police cars patrolling my town anymore, let alone foot patrols in the housing estate I live in. I think people will be fine for the most part. I see two adults regularly using private e-scooters in my town, and have been for at least a year.
Helps if the police aren’t chronically undermanned and underfunded.
Just make the fucking things legal, with insurance and helmets being compulsory if necessary. Seriously the police have better things to do than policing people riding e-scooters.
I have complained 4 times to West Yorkshire police to no reply…I took a service user out for the day last week had to push him out of the way of 2 of them riding side by side on the pavement. If I wasn’t with a service user they would have been taken and thrown in the canal.
Just fuckin legalise them like number of normal countries!
Why is it so fuckin difficult for the UK to look at the good solutions abroad and I mean Europe, not accross the ocean? I see it all the time here, battling things resolved elsewhere.
Meanwhile TFL and most commuter trains in London forbid them on-board so loose a lot of the interest of it.
Also many times see 2 kids riding on 1 scooter with no protection in the dark so just waiting for a bad thing to happen
The Party of “personal freedom” has a problem with personal e-scooters, while everyone can use them across Europe
What’s the difference me riding my electric mountain bike or electric scooter on the road one is legal, one is not.why?
I don’t see why we can’t just treat the faster ones like 125s or 50cc bikes and the slower ones as pushbikes. People will just ignore the law if they’re illegal and the police should be busy enforcing more important laws.
My local police post pictures weekly of them standing next to confiscated scooters with huge grins on their faces as if they just made the biggest bust of the year.
Haven’t they got some proper crime to investigate?
I really can’t fathom how rented scooters are allowed yet privately owned scooters are not.
Hurry up and legalise them I say. Encouraging people to make short journeys by car is a hell of a lot more dangerous in the long run than electric scooters.
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I really hope the police crack down on people using them on the road. I’ve seen so many lately without any lights on or reflective gear either hit a car or the car hit them. They tend to jump on and off the path which doesn’t help.
The government have been utterly useless in creating legislation for scooters. I own one, and only use it on the roads and abide the law of the roads. I basically ride it as if I were driving, albeit I try to hug the side of the road.
Fellow scooter users however often have no regard for anything other than speed. Weaving on and off the pavements, jumping red lights and just behaving like yobos.
I’d like to see some laws put in place to make it safer for everyone. Insurance should be a requirement, as should helmets and lights. Obviously id like a total ban on using them in pedestrian areas like pavements.
Anyone found to be operating one in a reckless manner or breaking the rules should face hefty fines and risk of forfeiting their scooter.
Unless they’re the ones the council gets money for they’re banned. Weird.
I hardly see police cars patrolling my town anymore, let alone foot patrols in the housing estate I live in. I think people will be fine for the most part. I see two adults regularly using private e-scooters in my town, and have been for at least a year.
Helps if the police aren’t chronically undermanned and underfunded.
Just make the fucking things legal, with insurance and helmets being compulsory if necessary. Seriously the police have better things to do than policing people riding e-scooters.
I have complained 4 times to West Yorkshire police to no reply…I took a service user out for the day last week had to push him out of the way of 2 of them riding side by side on the pavement. If I wasn’t with a service user they would have been taken and thrown in the canal.
Just fuckin legalise them like number of normal countries!
Why is it so fuckin difficult for the UK to look at the good solutions abroad and I mean Europe, not accross the ocean? I see it all the time here, battling things resolved elsewhere.
Meanwhile TFL and most commuter trains in London forbid them on-board so loose a lot of the interest of it.
Also many times see 2 kids riding on 1 scooter with no protection in the dark so just waiting for a bad thing to happen
The Party of “personal freedom” has a problem with personal e-scooters, while everyone can use them across Europe
What’s the difference me riding my electric mountain bike or electric scooter on the road one is legal, one is not.why?
I don’t see why we can’t just treat the faster ones like 125s or 50cc bikes and the slower ones as pushbikes. People will just ignore the law if they’re illegal and the police should be busy enforcing more important laws.
My local police post pictures weekly of them standing next to confiscated scooters with huge grins on their faces as if they just made the biggest bust of the year.
Haven’t they got some proper crime to investigate?
I really can’t fathom how rented scooters are allowed yet privately owned scooters are not.
Hurry up and legalise them I say. Encouraging people to make short journeys by car is a hell of a lot more dangerous in the long run than electric scooters.