E-scooter made life objectively harder for cyclists. They are abandoned in the middle of bike lanes and create danger, or in the spots were you could park your bike safely. They make every walking street worse, you are always bumping against them. And they seem to be mostly used by a young, well-off, highly entitled / inconsiderate demographic.

They do nothing to improve life in the city. They are a toy that makes life worse for almost everyone. I can't wait for them to be banned here also.

The modal share of car in Berlin is 26%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_share

Please first reduce by 95% the amount of car, taxi and motorcycle and then we'll talk about scooter.

Which is pretty low for a capital of a prosperous western country (order by that column and you will see). Maybe I do actually know enough people to make a statistic.

Would I like it to be even lower? Sure.

> Please first reduce by 95% the amount of car, taxi and motorcycle and then we'll talk about scooter.

We are taking steps to reduce cars here. Let us do that AND TALK ABOUT SCOOTERS. The citizens decide what is important to them. Thanks.

I don't know about Paris, but the from other cities I've seen it's probably the general poor behaviour of rental scooter hirers that's the problem. Ignoring any dangerous riding the scooters are just so poorly parked - cluttering sidewalks, falling into roads etc. I'm an occasional e-scooter hirer when a tourist and sometimes after a night out in my home town, but I'm 50/50 if they should be banned in my city.

Rental companies should take more of an effort to penalise users that park and drive poorly if they want to continue operating.

Cars are well parked in Paris but way more bulky and streets are unpleasant and dangerous because of them : https://www.google.com/maps/@48.8857511,2.3873659,3a,75y,80....

Please substantiate this claim. Thank you.

Continuing, they didn't measure anything. They estimated.

In Paris, air pollution kills 5,400 people every year

https://www-francebleu-fr.translate.goog/infos/transports/a-...

https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/transports/a-paris-la-pollut...

Air pollution is responsible for more than 5,000 deaths each year in Paris according to a study published on Wednesday. Published in the Lancet Planetary Health journal, it calculated premature deaths linked to PM2.5 fine particle pollution and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in 1,000 European cities. The French capital appears to be one of the cities where automobile pollution kills the most.

Furthermore, the lancet paper only estimates, they didn't measure anything. The linked article presents an hypothesis as if it was proved. It was not.

I completely understand it's due to the lack of alternative riding infrastructure (ideally they would ride on bicycle lanes, but not everywhere is like The Netherlands), but you wouldn't ride a bike on a sidewalk, and riding on the road is very dangerous on these scooters.

So yeah they're either a menace to pedestriands because they don't drive safely on pedestrian areas, or they're a menace to cars because they're very unstable on the roads and put themselves in danger, least of all because most people who ride them don't really know road legislation.

For some reason, people were finishing their ride and leaving the scooter in the bike lane, across the sidewalk, across a pedestrian crossing etc.

The rental companies were intentionally blocking the sidewalk in the city centre, arranging the scooters in neat lines overnight. Presumably for visibility/advertising.

All this happens to a much lesser extent with the SV-style ebike rental companies, though it's still not unusual to see those parked badly.

It happens rarely with the manual bike rental company. I think they make you photograph the parked bike when you finish, so they are almost always in a bike rack.

Thanks. Best joke i have heard in the last year.

She fell on her right arm, suffering multiple fractures. She yelled for the rider to return, which he then did, and to call for help. However, her prognosis is uncertain.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/06/paris-taking-s...

But I mean whenever people are giving their anecdotal evidence as to why they don't want scooters it's always because they were "almost" hit, I'd never read a comment from someone who was actually hit and almost is very subjective.

When considering something like this we should really be looking at the data, rather than yelling about people who were almost hit

Not a day goes by without me having to remove 1-3 e scooters from my building sidewalk, which isn't even a public street, otherwise eldrely people or people with strollers can't pass through anymore

We used to have a similar problem with people dumping cars, but those are now very traceable and owners will get heavily fined if they leave a car in the water.