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Good fucking riddance. I hate these things, people leave them just lying across the sidewalk all the time.
Sounds like a people problem
If people are being a problem, then it’s a design problem.
The business model failed to deal with people leaving scooters in the way. It was a problem in every city.
I don’t know if I’m weird but I’ve always been careful to park scooters in a way that doesn’t hinder others. Also never thrown a scooter in a river or kicked them over and i don’t get people who have the desire to do something like that. Not trying to pat my own back by saying this but it seems to me that it is possible to have micro-rental scooter services and treat it in a way that doesn’t make it a nuisance or danger to others. Don’t take my scooters away just because some people don’t know how to behave. Like i don’t imagine banning cars universally (though reducing them and promoting foot traffic would be nice) because some people are bad drivers, instead they get policed and fined/thrown in jail. I’m probably thinking way too naive about it but i like using scooters to go short distances.
IMHO it’s a “negative externality” issue. Each individual saves precious seconds by leaving the scooter in the middle of the sidewalk. So a good way to internalize the cost might be to impound scooters left in the way, at the company’s expense (like cars). Then the company can go through their data to determine if it was the last user’s fault, or just some random jerk.
It’s ultimately the company’s problem, not the sidewalk-using public’s problem, especially wheelchair users who can’t move the scooters themselves.
(FWIW I used to charge these things as a side hustle and don’t want them taken away either.)
The scooters are really popular in our city. Currently we have 2 companies operating: Bird and Neuron. The positives have definitely outweighed the negatives. Hope they can keep going.
I’m of the total opposite mindset. I love having them where I travel, and I will fight to my dying breath to keep them out of my city lol.
Before I am called a hypocrite I am totally fine with other cities keeping them out. But if they’re there, I’m using them (and putting them where they belong instead of leaving them scattered everywhere like an asshole)
You’re right, it’s very NIMBY sounding
That’s not what the term means. NIMBY refers to people trying to prevent other people from using their own property in ways they don’t like, not people who don’t want shitty companies actively throwing trash in the commons.
a person who does not want something unpleasant to be built or done near where they live
a colloquialism signifying one’s opposition to the locating of something considered undesirable in one’s neighborhood.
Maybe one more?
opposition to the locating of something considered undesirable (such as a prison or incinerator) in one’s neighborhood
None of those contradict my definition.
Not wanting a company dumping fucking trash in the streets is not and does not even vaguely resemble NIMBYism.
You’re omitting the part where OP is fine with the “trash dumping” in the streets of other locales. That’s what makes it NIMBY (as OP admits).
Dude honestly sounds proud of being a NIMBY
