@just_chill@Funkwonker I live in a city with a lot of bike paths (Bogotá). People drive their scooters, ebikes, and even small electric motorcycles on the bike paths, and it’s perfectly fine. I’ve never had or seen an issue with scooters (though surely there are some, we’re humans, after all). So, I agree: build more bike infrastructure and more people (even not on bikes!) will be happier.
I suspect there is a bit of a compounding effect with renting the scooters (more prevalent where I live), which makes users less respectful. Or a novelty effect with teenagers rushing past on their new toy. In my experience that wears out fast, though.
I guess even here some forget that you can put the scooters on bike lanes :)
Same here, my town simply has multi-use paths basically on every other street and the only problem i see with e-scooters is that for some inscrutable reason people insist on parking the rental ones literally in the middle of the road???
It’s incredibly strange because they don’t even park them near a destination, literally just in the middle of nowhere…
But other than that people behave really well, and it makes me smile so very much to see families where the kids have their own bikes and e-scooters and the parents are riding rental ones, the added convenience of e-scooters has absolutely gotten more people out of their cars and actually experiencing the world and interacting with people around them.
@just_chill @Funkwonker I live in a city with a lot of bike paths (Bogotá). People drive their scooters, ebikes, and even small electric motorcycles on the bike paths, and it’s perfectly fine. I’ve never had or seen an issue with scooters (though surely there are some, we’re humans, after all). So, I agree: build more bike infrastructure and more people (even not on bikes!) will be happier.
I suspect there is a bit of a compounding effect with renting the scooters (more prevalent where I live), which makes users less respectful. Or a novelty effect with teenagers rushing past on their new toy. In my experience that wears out fast, though.
I guess even here some forget that you can put the scooters on bike lanes :)
Same here, my town simply has multi-use paths basically on every other street and the only problem i see with e-scooters is that for some inscrutable reason people insist on parking the rental ones literally in the middle of the road???
It’s incredibly strange because they don’t even park them near a destination, literally just in the middle of nowhere…
But other than that people behave really well, and it makes me smile so very much to see families where the kids have their own bikes and e-scooters and the parents are riding rental ones, the added convenience of e-scooters has absolutely gotten more people out of their cars and actually experiencing the world and interacting with people around them.
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