San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber and Lyft

Re:San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber... by prepend on Friday August 31, 2018 @01:49AM (#17883246)

That is a dumb law that was made when motorcycles were the only vehicles competing inside walks.

There is very little traffic on sidewalks and using it for pedestrians and scooters and bicycles is much better. Especially considering that cyclists can pause or go around pedestrians when necessary.

Having an absolute law rather than an adaptive is not useful to the community.

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Re:San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber... by topmonk on Friday August 31, 2018 @04:42AM (#17883945)

Tell that to the wheelchair bound person who now have to deal with a scooter blocking their path every 20 yards.

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Re:San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber... by prepend on Sunday September 02, 2018 @08:57PM (#17899525)

I use a wheelchair. It would certainly suck to have a scooter blocking my path.

But I don’t think scooters parked in the sidewalk apply to me very much. If we’re moving, they or I move around each other.

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Re:San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber... by jonny_eh on Friday August 31, 2018 @08:16PM (#17889373)

I encounter cars blocking sidewalks all the time. Cars haven't been banned yet.

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Re:San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber... by saas_co_de on Friday August 31, 2018 @05:19AM (#17884097)

> There is very little traffic on sidewalks

lol. i guess the plebs who can't afford uber don't count as people. SF sidewalks have seem pretty packed to me whenever I am there.

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