Here in Brussels, e-scooters are a serious plague. They are so often left in the middle of sidewalks, and they are super heavy so moving them out of the way is

Here in Brussels, e-scooters are a serious plague. They are so often left in the middle of sidewalks, and they are super heavy so moving them out of the way is very annoying. Plus they start beeping like crazy. I was on roller skates a while back, someone left a scooter in the middle of the park. I picked it up to move it, it started beeping, startled me, i fell and it fell on my hand. Took me five weeks to heal. More bike sharing please. People tend to leave the bikes in appropriate spots. I agree the station-based bikes are awful (we have Villo here which is ridiculously bad). But JUMP and our local alternative Billy are cheaper and better ways to get through the city. Plus those scooters fail hard on cobblestone. It took Lime almost two years to realize their scooters were not appropriate for half the city, and to replace them with a beefier model.