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I live in San Francisco. These things are everywhere, the people who ride them leave them anywhere as well. Sometimes just laying flat on the ground even. I hat

• gkoberger 8y ago
  We clearly live in a different San Francisco. I see them all over, but have only seen maybe 1-2 (out of hundreds) that are blocking anything or knocked over. And the ones that are laying flat are likely knocked down by someone who dislikes them.
• chrischen 8y ago
  I've found the problem that there aren't enough of them (if you're trying to use them for a practical purpose). If they're a problem it'll be if someone rides on the sidewalk, but I've personally yet to see that. Frankly SF has dozens of other nuisance problems such as literal human feces on the street, tents, crack smokers in broad daylight, various types of property crime, before one tipped-over scooter in a 3 block radius would be considered a legitimate nuisance. I think the main reason why the city is going after these startups is because the startups have money.
• notyourday 8y ago
  Solution is simple: a few big trash trucks going through, picking them up and squishing them like little bugs. As soon as the companies that provide them start losing those multi-hundred to multi-thousand dollar bikes in quantify of hundreds or thousands they ( the companies ) will figure out how to deal with it. MTA a few years ago dealt with bicyclists ignoring "Dont chain your bikes to X" signs by sending its workers to cut the bikes in addition to cutting the lock chains. This quickly solved the problem.