EFF Responds to Bird's Legal Threats to Boing Boing

Re:EFF Responds to Bird's Legal Threats to Boing Boing by DowsingSpoon on Saturday January 12, 2019 @02:08AM (#18890121)

Bikes are parked on bike racks, which is to say, in a place designed to store bikes. Scooters are parked — rather, strewn — across the side walk chaotically with no regard for those of us actually trying to walk there.

Sometimes scooters are parked on the side of the road. Sometimes scooters are parked in a ditch beside the road. Bikes rarely are.

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Re:EFF Responds to Bird's Legal Threats to Boing Boing by thaumasiotes on Saturday January 12, 2019 @10:50AM (#18891659)

> Bikes are parked on bike racks, which is to say, in a place designed to store bikes.

Speaking from my experience in Shanghai, where bicycles are common, there's no such thing as a bike rack. (Well, I have seen racks for rental bikes. But none for individually-owned bicycles.)

Rather, supermarkets, university buildings, apartment complexes, and other places which are likely to receive a lot of incoming traffic have bicycle parking lots, and if you're somewhere else, you park on the sidewalk.

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Re:EFF Responds to Bird's Legal Threats to Boing Boing by Tsubasachan on Saturday January 12, 2019 @06:42AM (#18890793)

Isnt it the job of the government to make sure there is infrastructure in place for bicycles and motorcycles? That is what they did for cars after all.

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Re:EFF Responds to Bird's Legal Threats to Boing Boing by Broken_Hippo on Saturday January 12, 2019 @04:51AM (#18890510)

Bike racks? Really? I've never lived in a town that had them until my current city - and even then, there are really only in areas with enough traffic for them.

Scooters can be parked at bike racks. Are there enough bike racks to park the scooters at the bike racks? would the situation be similar if all of those scooters were bicycles or if bicycles were as cheap as scooters?

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