Use of powered vehicles on sidewalks is illegal, as is blocking entrances with vehicles. The city accused Bird and Lime of doing both.
There is very little traffic on sidewalks and using it for pedestrians and scooters and bicycles is much better. Especially considering that cyclists can pause or go around pedestrians when necessary.
Having an absolute law rather than an adaptive is not useful to the community.
But I don’t think scooters parked in the sidewalk apply to me very much. If we’re moving, they or I move around each other.
lol. i guess the plebs who can't afford uber don't count as people. SF sidewalks have seem pretty packed to me whenever I am there.
In contrast to Bird, Scoot hasn't attracted that much criticism in SF despite being a pretty similar service.