Re:Paris Votes to Ban Rental E-Scooters
by vkou on Monday April 03, 2023 @02:42AM
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> E-Scooters are a public menace.
So are cars. They kill hundreds of thousands of people each year. They are incompatible with spaces that are occupied/moved through by humans, dangerous on the road, and consume half the city's livable space through business and residential parking lots. They poison our air, and they damage our hearing.
They also cost tens of thousands of dollars a year to buy and operate, and require untold billions of dollars to be spent on building and maintaining an endless sprawl of road infrastructure.
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... Maybe if we consider the benefits, as opposed to only the drawbacks, scooters might look a bit better than you paint them to be?
So are cars. They kill hundreds of thousands of people each year. They are incompatible with spaces that are occupied/moved through by humans, dangerous on the road, and consume half the city's livable space through business and residential parking lots. They poison our air, and they damage our hearing.
They also cost tens of thousands of dollars a year to buy and operate, and require untold billions of dollars to be spent on building and maintaining an endless sprawl of road infrastructure.
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... Maybe if we consider the benefits, as opposed to only the drawbacks, scooters might look a bit better than you paint them to be?