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I bike to work in downtown SF in one of the areas with the most scooters. Often there are more scooters in bike lanes than bicycles. I have never seen an accide
by woah 7y ago
I bike to work in downtown SF in one of the areas with the most scooters. Often there are more scooters in bike lanes than bicycles. I have never seen an accident, so your anecdote is not my experience.
I do often see people scooting without a helmet on streets with no protected bike lane which makes me cringe, knowing how reckless with other’s lives many car drivers are. In these situations, I think it’s better for people to ride on the sidewalk. Nobody should have to sacrifice their lives for poor urban planning, and the bruises from a pedestrian/scooter collision are much less serious than the death or brain injury from a car/scooter collision.
- tempsy 7y agoYou having never seen a scooter accident is also an anecdote... I was in San Diego last month, which has many times more scooters than San Francisco, and I saw several people fall (though not hurt) off scooters.
- bsagdiyev 7y agoThe riders aren't exactly being safe either, in San Diego's case. I was at Seaport Village last weekend and a girl on an electric scooter almost knocked over my newborn's stroller since she was ripping and tearing around with no care to pedestrians. I've used the scooters so I think they're not a terrible idea but there needs to be some education and common sense around them I think.
- woah 7y agoEdited to make it more obvious that my anecdote is also an anecdote
- beefalo 7y agoA lot of cities have tons of these scooters but no bike lanes. I saw lots of really dangerous behavior on them in St Louis and there were a lot of collisions.