Comment on Bike Riders of lemmy, you okay with me riding my eScooter in the bike lane?

• 1st@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I'll be much more irritated if you're on the sidewalk. It's more dangerous for pedestrians and for you. When you're biking you expect to have to pass people whether it's because they're a slower cyclist or using a escooter. My old apartment had an exit at a blind corner and dealing with escooter riders on the sidewalk was hellish. I would pull out slowly so that pedestrians had plenty of time to stop, but when scooters became popular I had to start creating forward at a painfully slow pace because people going bike speeds somehow thought it was okay to be on the sidewalk.

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  • ericbomb@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There is a specific place I use sidewalk, but I always go slower and go onto street or walk by pedestrians.

    The road is just super busy and nowhere to possibly be on road.

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    • awwwyissss@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think if you’re respectful most people won’t care. It’s just the small percent of jackasses that ruin it for everyone else.

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