Wait until you find out about cars. Also pretty tough on other road users.
Both are a pain but cars are much more regulated. Parking a car on the sidewalk or in front of a door of any major city -> you're towed in the next 30 min. Park 5+ escooters in the middle of a busy sidewalk and you'll have to wait until someone decides to throw them away, nobody will get fines, nobody will lose his vehicle for XX hours, &c.
People who use vehicles they don't own are extra reckless and less careful about what they do and where they park, it reveals how many people actually don't give a single fuck about living in organised communities and have absolutely no regards for their neighbours
E scooters would be a dream if every Nth car parking spot was reserved for them and people were forced to park on these spots. You could even have them part of the city transportation subscription that way you wouldn't give money to tax dodging US companies.
That is reserved for children.
about as useful as "Taxes? Wait until you hear about death."
there can be many bad things at one time, this doesn't mean we can't discuss the smaller problems, too.
It is underlining that lots of people are focusing on conflicts between scooters, bikes and pedestrian have to use walkable areas and fringe of streets/roads for moving and parking.
But overlooking that probably 90% of the space is dedicated to cars (driving and parking) and that is not up for debate.
The great fire of London literally reduced the city by so much that practically the entire city was rebuilt; that was only 350y ago (not making the case that you’re wrong about it being old, but 2,000 years is unfortunately wrong)
Anyway, urban design is not set in stone.
It’s interesting to look at the evolution of Los Angeles as an example of a city that already exists being radically changed, entire blocks of buildings were demolished to make downtown roads so wide.
I'm not sure giving LA, one of the poster cities for how not to do urban design, as an example, is a great idea.
Paris did the same thing, only in a much more measured fashion, in the 1760s under Haussmann and Napoléon III.
However destroying parts of a city which is thousands of years old just to increase the size of sidewalks would be to destroy historical monuments for minimal gains. If anything, making most small streets pedestrian and bike only sounds smarter.
(and i was trying to correct the notion that the city of london has not had radical changes in its urban design for 2000 years)
If scooter users stayed on roads i wouldn't have a problem. But the technology lends itself to abuse by people with no knowledge of safe road use.
No. It is not. I even had work colleagues modifying their scooters firmware to do up to or over 30mph
Your colleague, and others, breaking the law and driving dangerously does not mean we should get rid of a means of transportation that is legally and safely used by others.
Drivers operating cars 100% legally are a bigger threat to pedestrians than reckless scooter users.
Here in London at least, scooter journeys are mostly impractical by private car due to lack of parking. Logically they are replacing bus journeys, walking, taxis and cycling.
aside : i'd like to see this world of yours where cars are operated 100% legally -- even very responsible drivers tend to violate some road laws on a fairly common basis.