Re:The Scooter Economy
by laughinghan on Monday June 11, 2018 @11:31AM
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You may be right about all that, but that’s no reason to think the MTA is going off silly reasons or being “malevolent” for regulating (not even banning!) the scooters, rather than acting out of genuine concern.
I don't think they're malevolent. I do think they're acting at the behest of Supes looking for a quick win over something trivial instead of working on SF's very real, very visible problems of people suffering immensely.
With that said, I have heard very few people voice such completely reasonable concerns. Most of the complaints about scooters I've encountered from actual people seem to hinge on them looking funny, especially when in use. And even those are rare. Most people don't seem to care, suggesting that scooters are not genuinely unpopular.
Your concerns are real, and very important. Yet, they don't seem to bear much on scooters in the public consciousness. Have you considered that there may be other factors at work in the minds of most?