I think cars are a lot worse, if we just took those off the street there's be no problem with people scooting on the streets
Otoh, you could ban e-scooters tomorrow and after dramatically improving various urban areas, the biggest effect would be a few scooter companies going bankrupt.
I want people to have options, and for large cities to promote less environmentally destructive modes of transportation that are also more accessible and take up less space. Yeah, maybe you see people leaving scooters on the sidewalks; I see shared use of public infrastructure that doesn't have to have large amounts of space dedicated for 'parking'
Well but it is. Restricting/Eliminating cars in city centers especially would do wonders to promote them as places that people want to live in.
Banning new modes of transportation is really just going to reinforce the existing car-centric design of cities though.
There are probably already people who depend on them to get to work - and those people are probably far more marginalised and vulnerable than car drivers.
That’s just in your opinion though. Scooters are super convenient if you’re not just an old fuddy dud afraid of new things.
And while everybody must pay for parking or public soil occupation… apparently these companies are exempt and can completely fill a sidewalk for free (of course people then have to walk on the bike lane).