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Thanks for this write up - there need to be some clear rules on where scooters can park on the sidewalk as they end up in all sorts of what I would consider inappropriate and inconvenient places. Can they be in tree boxes? Locked to tree boxes? Trees? Next to fire hydrants? Near doors to buildings? What if they are blocking the public right of way?

A simple solution would seem to be just painting some boxes on the sidewalk where it would be appropriate to park scooters and everything else is off limits but maybe I am misunderstanding the lock to something need here?

And parking enforcement needs to be able to ticket the scooters that end up in the wrong places but from my experience parking enforcement officers are usually hesitant to deal with any cars that are not strictly on the street and if you happen to find an officer who somewhat understands the actual laws they will tell you they don't deal with public space violations.

But a corollary to this unmentioned in the article is that most of the scooters that end up parked on the sidewalk get there after they are driven on the sidewalk, sometimes for significant distances, commingled with pedestrians.

And that needs to be an explicit no no going forward with a credible enforcement mechanism.

by TomQ on Aug 15, 2012 12:02 pm • link • report