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[–] [email protected] 126 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Scooters go where people walk... trucks usually don't

[–] [email protected] 157 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Whew! It’s a good thing trucks never go through cross walks or across curb cuts to get into parking lots and drive throughs.

The only reason people ride scooters on the sidewalks is because our infrastructure is severely lacking and you get stuck “sharing” a lane with a 6000+lb truck.

[–] [email protected] 94 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You aren’t wrong and neither are they.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Stop that! You get outta here with that rational approach

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

across curb cuts to get into parking lots and drive throughs.

Generally not faster than scooter speed anyway though.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Damn. Wish there was a way to have separate lanes or something

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Still, bike lanes have a speed limit of 25 km/h where I live

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

but you don't even need to be particularly swole to reach 30 km/h on a bicycle, how does that work then? Do they arrest people without speedometers on their bikes?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Generally that rule is not checked nor enforced.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

okay so it's just not actually a thing in practice then, not sure why bring it up in that case?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

They should, yes.

In Belgium those require a drivers license, and your license can be revoked.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not in my city. It is illegal for motorized vehicles of any kind to travel on sidewalks.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's illegal here as well, they just do it anyways

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

People are forbidden from going where the trucks go... or that seems to be the popularly agreed upon arrangement.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Every time you drive from home or to home is unusual?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I think here they're talking usually in the sense of space, the vast majority of your time is spent on roads.