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0 pointsfoob7y ago0 comments

> Who cares if it's illegal?

The pedestrians that are endangered by relatively high speed motorized vehicles riding on sidewalks care. It's totally reasonable for you to not want to ride a scooter on the street, but that doesn't entitle you to break the law and make sidewalks less safe for others.

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bestnameever7y ago

I really haven't seen scooter riding on the sidewalk as a problem out in my area. People already ride bikes and skateboards and everything else, plus, a lot of sidewalks are under utilized with very few pedestrians as it is.

baroffoos7y ago

And what entitles drivers to make the streets very unsafe for everyone?

lmm7y ago

The democratic law of the land. I don't like it any more than you do - I'm all for increased penalties when drivers kill people, and/or banning cars from city-center streets - but society functions when people follow the democratic process to change laws they disagree with rather than just breaking them.

baroffoos7y ago

Breaking laws is almost always the first stage of having them fixed. People can now see there is a demand for electric scooters and they need a safe way to ride them. Without riding them on the footpath there would never be any visible demand for them and everyone would just continue driving to work.

Fricken7y ago

It's the cars that kill and maim pedestrians and drive scooter riders to the sidewalks. They're your real enemy.

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bestnameever7y ago

baroffoos7y ago

And what entitles drivers to make the streets very unsafe for everyone?

lmm7y ago

baroffoos7y ago

Fricken7y ago

It's the cars that kill and maim pedestrians and drive scooter riders to the sidewalks. They're your real enemy.

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