Electric Scooter Nuisances

What if the scooters aren't the problem and the cities inadequate infrastructure is?

Not just strewn with litter, but also more dangerous for pedestrians because many scooter riders use the sidewalks as full-speed slalom courses. If scooters have designated parking spaces and designated non-sidewalk rideable areas/lanes they are great. Most places do not have these things yet and enforcing them takes a lot of the convenience factor away from the platform as well.

I don't live in Paris but we have them in our small city in the US and they are a nuisance.We're only a rather small There are numerous problems and it's not just the scooters, obviously

I think it's a question of how those things are "laying around".In Paris this is a relatively new development, but what I take issue with is where they are left by the users, which is usually in the middle of the sidewalk. People really don't care where they leave them since there's no consequence for them.I ride a motorbike around town. In Paris it's legal to park motorbikes and scooters on the sidewalks if the sidewalk is wide enough as to not bother pedestr

If scooters create problems because they're left out, fine the scooter companies for littering. That will cut into their profits, so they'll either innovate ways to make them less of a nuisance or stop doing business. Banning them makes little sense. Cities can help by increasing availability of bike racks, and scooter companies can help by providing locks on those racks to customers.

I think the big issue that most people have with them is the large externality of having scooters littered around the sidewalk.In a lot of places in West Los Angeles, you are having to step around them constantly if you walk down the street. People literally just drop them in the middle of the sidewalk, because there is no incentive for them to not do that.This means that everyone who doesn't use the service has to suffer.

Living in a major city which also has a buzz about banning scooters and scooters being banned in some more posh neighborhoods already, I have problem with this.The problem is obviously not the existence of scooters but how people would pile them up or ride them carelessly on sidewalks. IMHO, the solution would be to create infrastructure and usage rules. Seize the scooters from those who do not comply. Eventually, either the scooters would stop causing problems or they will no longer exist.

I've found the problem that there aren't enough of them (if you're trying to use them for a practical purpose).If they're a problem it'll be if someone rides on the sidewalk, but I've personally yet to see that.Frankly SF has dozens of other nuisance problems such as literal human feces on the street, tents, crack smokers in broad daylight, various types of property crime, before one tipped-over scooter in a 3 block radius would be considered a legitimate nuis

Given the 5 or 6 brands of (mutually incompatible) scooters littering Bay area streets right now this is not such a terrible idea. They weren't declared a public nuisance by heartless bureaucrats (indeed this didn't happen at al where I live): they just started taking up street space and getting in the way of disabled people, people with kids, and anyone needing to push a cart on a sidewalk. I've lost count of the times I've had to move one or more of the things out of the wa

> This has been a problem with bike and scooter services in many cities globally.This is hilarious. People are mowed down by cars every day, but somehow scooters being left in annoying areas is the issue?