Is your city suddenly infested with electric scooters?

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Over the last couple months i started to notice people in them more and more. Now almost every street has a bunch waiting.

I believe the idea is through some app you can rent one and they are just waiting all over the city.

Curious if other places now have this?
 
Yeah mate those bloody Lime scooters are everywhere. South Park did an episode on it last season where Mr. Mackey rounds them all up and pushes them off a cliff.

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i thought this was gonna be about the shit you see in walmart

lmao that shit is dope af do a 420 no scope on that thing homey
 
Nope. I think I've seen one a few months ago but that was it.

There are more and more electric bicycles, but I don't think e-scooters are even street legal in the UK at the moment? I've seen people coming back with various injuries from their vacation, having used e-scooters and underestimating the speed they can reach while making no noise.
 
I see them everywhere where I live. The route I usually walk in the evenings is also next to two places that rent these things and I have to admit it's kinda amusing seeing all the different people rising them, from old to young.
 
I don't live in a hipster/big city so it would never work here. I can see people scraping them here or tossing them in a dumpster.
 
Yep, it's pretty much picked up over the last year or so. You really get used to seeing them just stand around everywhere. It actually makes me a little concernced about public security – people would be cautious if someone left a bag or a briefcase standing around at a public terminal, but don't seem to care about them scooters at all.
 
You can even buy those from stores, ranging between 200-300 euro. They take the bicycle routes usually but they even meddle with car routes. Very dangerous as they lack manouvrebility like bicycles and it is difficult to brake. I even see parents having their kids on board too!

Our city has a big sea side road for pedestrians so it is convenient but venturing on the main roads would be suicide.
 
I highly recommend this page for pics/vids of these things either fucking people up or getting fucked up:

 
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It's easy to tell when visiting a city with those Lime scooters because there will be a giant pile of them outside your hotel. They occupy a weird space where they can be too fast for the sidewalk, but too slow to be in the road.

I was working an event in SLC last summer and nearly got hit multiple times by people flying around corners with these on the sidewalk. I'm assuming Lime will be sued into oblivion by personal injury claims.
 
I saw one on the train a few days ago.
So Philadelphia has yet to be infested with scooters.

Philadelphia does, however, have a surplus of other infestations (Bedbugs, ticks, mosquitos, crime, grime, junkies, gnats, rats, homeless and flies... just to name a few). :messenger_grimmacing_

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Maybe they should put that in the tourist ads.
 
atlanta is inundated

i think ive seen 3 brands of electric scooters and two brands of share/electric bikes

heres the kicker - the city is not built for transportation like that. the bike lanes etc are abysmal if not nonexistent
 
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They have arrived in Germany, and of course you need insurance for them and they're planning to make helmet use mandatory and probably further limit their numbers. And you can only ride on bike lanes, IIRC, so in many German cities they're as good as out of the question to use them to get everywhere.
 
atlanta is inundated

i think ive seen 3 brands of electric scooters and two brands of share/electric bikes

heres the kicker - the city is not built for transportation like that. the bike lanes etc are abysmal if not nonexistent

Yeah, that's my only real gripe with them. That and how they end up all over the middle of sidewalks rather than parked out of the way somewhere. We're such a sprawl and traffic plagued city we need more non-car transit options, especially with how Marta (the subway for non-Atlantans) is a plus sign through the city and leaves many areas hard to get to without a car or bus ride. But it's very dangerous to bike or scooter around the city as you're either in the street and drivers here are pretty aggressive and hostile to bikers/scooter people slowing them down or on the sidewalk and are a danger to pedestrians.
 
Here in Portugal it's like a damn plague, it's a new kind of visual pollution, considering the density you find them spread all over the streets.

People use them and drop them anywhere. It's chaotic.

Besides, people should walk instead of using this in my opinion.
 
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I wouldn't mind having them around as long as people weren't throwing them anywhere, but unfortunatelly due to lowlifes and gypsies it's not gonna happen any time soon. Privately owned are rising in numbers but you can't even bike here because someone will still it, chained or not.
 
I saw them all over LA and San Francisco last summer when I visited. Totally blew my mind when I realized how ubiquitous they are in "sidewalk" cities, midtowns, downtowns, etc. You won't find them in a "driving" city like Houston or in more rural/suburban areas.

I think they're pretty cool, but the Honda Grom (street legal mini bike) movement is insane, too. I've seen HUGE organized group rides in my town, completely blocking traffic, getting the attention of cops, etc. Not as accessible as an electric scooter, but equally as new of a fad.

 
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Kinda, it's not as bad as the free bikes that almost no one use anyway, and whose stands take up so much space. There were lots of people on kick scooters years before and they're not that intrusive tbh.
 
Yes, actually, on my way home from work yesterday I saw one parked in the middle of the sidewalk. You can thank companies like Bird dropping them onto the streets unannounced last year during the summer.

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