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Re:What Dockless Bikes and Scooters Are Exposing by chroma on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @06:11PM (#16871702)
If the thing you care about is clear sidewalks, scooters are such a tiny problem that they're barely worth mentioning. I've had to step over parked scooters a handful of times. Every time, they were in an alley that no wheelchair or blind person could have navigated. The sidewalk was also populated with garbage cans, bicycle parts, and some random trash.

If a scooter is poorly parked in a high traffic area, people tend to move it out of the way. If it's in a low traffic area, then there's almost always other stuff in the way as well.

Re:What Dockless Bikes and Scooters Are Exposing by terenig on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @07:28PM (#16872164)
Yep. That's what the embedded Tweet was meant to illustrate.
Re:What Dockless Bikes and Scooters Are Exposing by inferiorhuman on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @09:45PM (#16872734)
> If the thing you care about is clear sidewalks, scooters are such a tiny problem that they're barely worth mentioning.

So let's nip it in the bud before it becomes a bigger problem and then use scooters as an example to rationalize the bigger problems with sidewalks.

Re:What Dockless Bikes and Scooters Are Exposing by inferiorhuman on Thursday April 19, 2018 @03:33AM (#16874020)
* rationalize dealing with