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Hey, maybe the users can ride them on the sidewalk, too! I've been having fun dodging the bikes and scooters (from no less than 3 companies!)!! /s Seriously,

by e40 8y ago

Hey, maybe the users can ride them on the sidewalk, too! I've been having fun dodging the bikes and scooters (from no less than 3 companies!)!! /s Seriously, my 2 mile walk to work has gone from a total joy to me looking over my shoulder to make sure I can change lanes without getting run over by a scooter/bike doing serious speed. And by change lanes I mean step around that dog turd.

dec0dedab0de 8y ago
Isnt it illegal in most places to ride vehicles on the sidewalk? Does it cause a lot of fights? I could imagine someone "accidentally" stretching at the right time to clothesline someone riding down the sidewalk. It's making me angry just thinking about it.
- xyzzyz 8y ago
  > I could imagine someone "accidentally" stretching at the right time to clothesline someone riding down the sidewalk. What you're describing here is aggravated assault, which is a serious crime.
  - privacypoller 8y ago
    chill - I don't think the GP actually suggesting we form vigilante squads to hunt down sidewalk-riding vesparados (see what I did there?)
- e40 8y ago
  Isnt it illegal in most places to ride vehicles on the sidewalk? Does it cause a lot of fights? Two days ago I said these words to a cyclist on the sidewalk coming toward me: please don't ride on the sidewalk. His reaction was to park his bike and walk toward me flipping the bird and yelling at me to "shut the fuck up"... I've never been in a fight over this, but too often this is the result. And lest you think I yelled those introductory words, I said them in the most pleading way I could muster. It is illegal to ride a bike on the sidewalk where I live. That doesn't stop the dozens of people I see each day. And this fun thing happened last night when I left my building (a very busy street): 2 cyclists coming through the intersection and one cyclist wanted to get around the other, so at the intersection he whipped onto the sidewalk, at about 20 mph, and rode between the people walking there. Had I exited my building seconds earlier I could have been serious injured by stepping into his path.

by e40 8y ago

dec0dedab0de 8y ago

Isnt it illegal in most places to ride vehicles on the sidewalk? Does it cause a lot of fights? I could imagine someone "accidentally" stretching at the right time to clothesline someone riding down the sidewalk. It's making me angry just thinking about it.

xyzzyz 8y ago
> I could imagine someone "accidentally" stretching at the right time to clothesline someone riding down the sidewalk. What you're describing here is aggravated assault, which is a serious crime.
- privacypoller 8y ago
  chill - I don't think the GP actually suggesting we form vigilante squads to hunt down sidewalk-riding vesparados (see what I did there?)
e40 8y ago
Isnt it illegal in most places to ride vehicles on the sidewalk? Does it cause a lot of fights? Two days ago I said these words to a cyclist on the sidewalk coming toward me: please don't ride on the sidewalk. His reaction was to park his bike and walk toward me flipping the bird and yelling at me to "shut the fuck up"... I've never been in a fight over this, but too often this is the result. And lest you think I yelled those introductory words, I said them in the most pleading way I could muster. It is illegal to ride a bike on the sidewalk where I live. That doesn't stop the dozens of people I see each day. And this fun thing happened last night when I left my building (a very busy street): 2 cyclists coming through the intersection and one cyclist wanted to get around the other, so at the intersection he whipped onto the sidewalk, at about 20 mph, and rode between the people walking there. Had I exited my building seconds earlier I could have been serious injured by stepping into his path.