• fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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    10 months ago

    Wouldn’t this apply to both rented and personally-owned scooters though?

    Getting rid of the rentals might reduce the number temporarily, but doesn’t really seem to solve the problem.

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      10 months ago

      It gets rid of all the unused rental scooters lying around on the sidewalk, and that was seen as the biggest nuisance. Privately owned scooters will never reach the same height of scooter littering.

      The rental scooter companies were unwilling or unable to deal with the issue. They were warned that this was becoming an issue.

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        10 months ago

        Privately owned scooters will never reach the same height of scooter littering.

        Perhaps not scooter “littering” but surely just numbers of personal transport devices.

        That is to say, if no other form of transport existed, then the presence of rental scooters would surely mean that there were fewer scooters in total and thereby fewer scooters parked on the sidewalk.

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      10 months ago

      most people who buy their own don’t leave it out on the street, and (while I’m not in paris…) my experience is they also tend to be more responsible about it. like riding while sober, wearing helmets, and being in the bike lane (or wherever they’re supposed to be)

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        10 months ago

        Yeah I think you’re dead right there.

        The rental scooters do seem to bring out the worst in people, or maybe they just tend to hilight people’s general disrespect for “things” particularly those which do not belong to them.

        People will always take care of their own stuff better than someone else’s.

        Edit: I’ve also noticed that people aren’t using them that much where I live. They were all over the place for a minute, but now don’t see them very much.

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      10 months ago

      If you own it, presumably you’ve spent more time using it, meaning you both look and drive in a more controlled manner