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> scooters you’ll see pretty much all over the place in cities like Los Angeles. have to laugh at this. The touristy areas are indeed packed with them. you can
by gcb0 8y ago
> scooters you’ll see pretty much all over the place in cities like Los Angeles.
have to laugh at this. The touristy areas are indeed packed with them. you can't even see the floor on 3rd street promenade because it is now covered in five companies' scooters. Maybe you see a couple in the silicon beach (which is not around snapchat house, and neither on the beach anymore). but actual places you'd call Los Angeles? none.
- wwweston 8y agoWest LA east of the 405 is... definitely LA municipality. There's absolutely lots of Bird scooters in Westwood. I think I've seen some in Hollywood.
- gcb0 8y agowest LA is also a mix of college city and tourist destination.
- gnicholas 8y agoYep, the Daily Bruin has written about their proliferation — and the enforcement/arrests due to violations of helmet laws — on several occasions. https://dailybruin.com/2018/04/08/ucpd-to-crack-down-on-electric-scooters-issue-citations-over-warnings/ https://dailybruin.com/2018/04/08/ucpd-to-crack-down-on-elec... I can see how they'd be useful on the hills at UCLA!
- throwaway413 8y agoExcept they don’t have nearly enough power to get up hills. You end up pushing it up the hill with you, which is worse than walking!
- gcb0 8y agothe grove, miracle mile, west LA, ucla, pier... those are all three things: (mostly) tourist (or university) destinations, flat and isolated. meaning you will use the scooters to circle around a small flat area. those things are hardly transportation for people that live walking distance to work. it wont replace anything but the $3 to $5 lyft/uber ride.
- wwweston 8y agoOh, yeah. If you live walking distance to work, you'd... continue to walk. The $3-5 crowdcab... what we're really talking about here is the last mile, and it's been enough of a subject of conversation that it's not a market I'd estimate low lightly. Also, West LA contains enough people who are doing other phases of life besides school or touring that there's no way everybody who's using the scooters on/around my block is a student or tourist.
- wjossey 8y agoI live near Fairfax and Wilshire (near The Grove) and they’ve just started cropping up on the sidewalks up and down Fairfax. I moved there from SaMo and it’s definitely not nearly as bad yet, but I can see the wave coming. I’m not a huge fan at this point, but I’m trying to not be too closed minded about them. They seem to serve a purpose, but I’m getting annoyed with people scootering on the sidewalks and it added to our already dirty / littered streets. On a health note, I’m amazed at how many people use them without helmets (basically 100% of people I observe). Given what we know about brain injury and trauma in 2018, I’m shocked people put their brains at such risk to just get from point A to point B slightly faster. Walking in LA feels dangerous enough to me at times with inattentive drivers, let alone adding some additional speed to any potential impact.
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