It’s suggestion that pedestrians and scooters not being able to share a space at all, that I find equivalent to a suggestion that motorists and cyclists should

It’s suggestion that pedestrians and scooters not being able to share a space at all, that I find equivalent to a suggestion that motorists and cyclists should not be able to share a space at all. I also don’t buy your suggestion that a difference in speed of 15-20kmph is the same as a 70-80kmph difference in speed. There’s plenty of situations where it’s safe to ride a scooter at 20kmph on a footpath, and from what I’ve seen, riding a lime on a foot path involves a lot of entirely safe speeding up and slowing down. In an ideal world, there’d be enough room for cars, bikes, scooters and pedestrians all of have their dedicated space. But we don’t live in that world. Few people would ride limes on the road, which wouldn’t be any safer. If you were going to make anything illegal, banning riding scooters on the footpath would be about as good as banning them al together, and capping their speed at 10kmph wouldn’t be much better. Why not just apply the same rules to scooters that are applied to vehicles? Carelessly driving a vehicle on the road is illegal, why can’t it be for a scooter on the sidewalk? The lime riders who are considerate and slow down in busy areas aren’t a danger or a problem.