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Money leaving the community wasnt really a problem. Space is at a premium here and the mayors asked the companies to register their bikes/scooters and have some
by lovich 8y ago
Money leaving the community wasnt really a problem. Space is at a premium here and the mayors asked the companies to register their bikes/scooters and have some sort of plan of dealing with them being left all over the place. The companies response was to ignore that entirely and just drop their equipment in the city overnight and announce they were in town.
They ignore the law when given the least bit of inconvenience , so why would anyone respect their property rights is the thinking that's going on.
- jpetso 8y agoThe counter-argument to that is that the public benefit vs. compensation aspect is massively biased: http://cityobservatory.org/e-scooters-and-paying-for-roads/ http://cityobservatory.org/e-scooters-and-paying-for-roads/ I'm really not a fan of companies flouting the law, but Atlanta complaining about bad use of space by vehicles is like Trump complaining about the lack of fact-checkers in journalism. If you're going to make regulations, there should be some semblance of equitable treatment for all involved.
- gamblor956 8y agoThe police consider the scooters to be abandoned property in jurisdictions where the scooter company did not get a permit, and are totally fine with people doing whatever they want to them. (Technically in CA and most other states you need to turn the property over to the police before it can be considered lost or abandoned by its owner.)