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[–] [email protected] 125 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 157 points 1 year ago (3 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] 93 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You aren’t wrong and neither are they.

[–] gibmiser 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stop that! You get outta here with that rational approach

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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

Generally not faster than scooter speed anyway though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

And they don't like to share. I had to flip off a driver for almost running me over today

[–] tdawg 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)

Generally that rule is not checked nor enforced.

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

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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

They should, yes.

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

[–] eek2121 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] WhiteHawk 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] jarfil 1 points 1 year ago

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

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

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

[–] assassin_aragorn 1 points 1 year ago

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