micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility
Ebikes, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, longboards, eboards, motorcycles, skates, unicycles: Whatever floats your goat, this is all things micromobility!
"Transportation using lightweight vehicles such as bicycles or scooters, especially electric ones that may be borrowed as part of a self-service rental program in which people rent vehicles for short-term use within a town or city.
micromobility is seen as a potential solution to moving people more efficiently around cities"
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Going to be devil's advocate here but there is a chance they where parked on their driveway on on the footpath blocking access for those who use mobility scooters
They have them here in Australia in my local town and I constantly see then lined up right against people's fences or on pathways blocking access for those who use mobility scooters or people who have mobility issues and find it hard to get around them
And these are the kind of scooters that have the occasional beep that annoys you in the middle of the night if they are parked against your fence and your bedroom window is near the fence
Edit: I do not advocate for throwing them in the river
No reason to ruin local waterways.
Literally a near-infinite amount of places one could put it besides "in the fucking river"
Granted you'd need a spaceship to access most of it, but the option is there.
I usually just toss them into the grass or the on street parking shoulder if I'm feeling extra salty. Saw one guy toss one on a public trash can once, funny in person.
But chucking them out of the solar system? I like that idea. Anyone got the phone number for NASA?
All the more reason these electric scooters should be parked on the street, ideally displacing car parking. If the law doesn't permit that, the law should change.
In a way, it would be a democratic way to show how public space should be allocated. If a place has more app-based electric scooters than cars parked beside the curb, then perhaps the local council should take the hint and build infrastructure to better accommodate those users. If there aren't many scooters, then no harm no foul.
The solution is move them literally anywhere else other than the fucking river, what are you on about.
Still doesn't justify it. I live in a city with rental scooters and ebikes everywhere. I'll move them out of the way if I encounter one in the way, but have never thrown one in a river no matter how annoying it is.
seattle here. they're everywhere, blocking sidewalks and left in driveways and parks. it's ridiculous, they lay around for days until their owner company picks them up, charges them back up and starts the cycle of stupid all over again.
and the only people I ever see using them? Kids too young to have credit cards, and too dumb to wear helmets.