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If the argument for parking is that it's democratically decided, then being able to leave scooters around wherever is also democratically decided. Santa Monica
by SamReidHughes 8y ago
If the argument for parking is that it's democratically decided, then being able to leave scooters around wherever is also democratically decided. Santa Monica could pass a scooter law whenever it wants to. They don't have a policy on nose-picking or walking without looking where you're going either.
The actual basis of your complaint is that you like parking, but you don't like scooters being put wherever.
- cortesoft 8y agoNo, my entire point has been that we need laws about where scooters are parked. I think it is a bit unfair to say we have democratically decided to let scooters park everywhere simply by the fact that we haven't yet passed any laws about where they can park; the law is slow to move, and the scooter parking issue is pretty new. Before Bird and Lime, there were not enough scooters around to be a big enough problem where we needed a law. Now we do, but the law is slow to change. In the mean time, it is pretty annoying.
- scarejunba 8y agoWe've democratically decided to allow people to use the new iPhone X. Scooters are the same.
- crankylinuxuser 8y agoYour use of a phone does not fundamentally devalue the public commons. Dumping private property on public lands, and expecting the citizens to respect what amounts to abandoned property is absurd. This is a level 100 class of "Tragedy of the commons". And with enough scooters, the very act of going somewhere on a scooter will be blocked by corporate trash.... Err, limes and birds.
- scarejunba 8y agoSure it does. Spectrum is a common resource. That's why it's hard to take a call in a stadium. And we let people bring their phones there. Besides, dumping private property on public land is what parking cars is. I'm comfortable outlawing this if we outlaw all street parking as well.