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In reply to your comment and the other comments, every bit of incremental change is on the margin. To solve the huge problem of global warming you have to solv
by CompelTechnic 8y ago
In reply to your comment and the other comments, every bit of incremental change is on the margin. To solve the huge problem of global warming you have to solve a thousand small problems.
If you leave convenient, eco-friendly transportation options all around the city, people will use eco-friendly transportation more than if they were not there. These scooters do in fact substitute for cars. Cities that have good public transportation are still enormously polluting, just a little bit less, assuming the darn buses operate at decent capacity. There is no panacea. Virtue signalling doesn't matter.
The existence of these scooters does not prevent buses and bikes from existing at the same level of service/ convenience as they did before. If anything they make the city more bike-friendly.
- ashelmire 8y ago> These scooters do in fact substitute for cars. Do they? Is there good evidence of that? I'm pretty skeptical, and from a google search I don't see that - and others seem to be similarly skeptical (outside of companies that own scooter companies...). It actually seems likely that the same people that would bike or take public transit would ride scooters - and that seems like the wrong direction to go.