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I don't get the hate. I get to work in 10 minutes flat compared to walking more than half an hour. It's a convenient way of commuting, especially if the trains

• jandrese 8y ago
  Most of the hate seems to come from people discarding them in inconvenient places like the middle of the sidewalk and in the last open parking spot on the street. They're neon colored litter when not in the "nests" or being actively ridden.
• Johnny555 8y ago
  Some of the hate comes from cyclists who now have to contend with scooters weaving around the bike lane, and from pedestrians that have to contend with 15 mph scooters on the sidewalk. The author outlined the problem with sharing the roads with bikes: Scooters accelerate out of a stop faster than bicycles, but the top speed of most scooters is below that of all but the slowest bikes. So if you come out of a stop next to a cyclist, you immediately lurch forward and pass them, only to watch them pass you five seconds later. And it is annoying to pass someone in the bike lane.
  • TulliusCicero 8y ago
    14-15mph is a perfectly fine speed. Any place that has a substantial % of bike commuters will have plenty of cyclists at or below that speed. Places where all cyclists are fast are usually just places where biking is so uncomfortable/unsafe that only highly skilled and confident riders do it. Meanwhile you look at Amsterdam and these scooters would be faster than average there in the bike paths.