What does this mean for electric scooters? I was walking through a pedestrianised earlier and I swear a person on an electric scooter was riding through at 40+ MPH with complete disregard for everyone else.
Legally it means fuck all even though there is actual legislation in place already governing electric scooters and e-bikes, because the coppers can’t be arsed to do anything about it.
Pretty much every single privately owned electric scooter on UK streets is being operated illegally by its rider. The streets of London are similarly flooded with illegal electric bikes. And almost every single day I see numerous instances of both types of riders not just travelling with impunity, but jumping red lights, riding on pavements, not even having any lights on at night, often while wearing all black like the thick twats they are for good measure. And on the numerous occasions over the past few years when I’ve witnessed this next or behind a cop car, not once they have bothered to do anything about it.
So in answer to your question, what it really means is that pedestrian serious injuries and occasionally deaths by e-scooterists and e-bikers are only going to increase. But I guess because motor vehicles kill more people, it will be brushed under the carpet because the ‘but motorists’ effect. As illustrated very recently in this thread.
As a motorcyclist, the thing I find the most indescribably idiotic/ vindictive about the issue of pedestrian safety in places like London nowadays is that in the much vaunted, endlessly wanked-over LTN zones that have popped up all over the place, trained, insured, number plate-identifiable, fully legally accountable motorcyclists (and as it should be, before anyone dares to suggest I object to that), are excluded from them. But highly illegal e-scooters and e-bikes, capable of speeds over 25 mph and in most cases operated by people who are completely careless at best if not reckless cunts, are most welcome to go through such supposed oasis of pedestrian and cyclist safety. If I lived in an LTN, I know which type of road user I would have less trouble using my street. But as everyone here knows, the ‘motor’ part of the word motorcycle makes them and their riders Teh Evil, so that’s that.
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