Every time I read a comment like this, that seems to ignore the amount of space, noise, and danger cars bring to a city, I just can’t believe it was written in right faith.
1. Store private goods permanently on the public commons?
2. Hinder the use of the public commons for long-term?
3. Treat the public commons as a refuse-dump?
4. Privatize the gains while socialize the losses?
Do we need something better in terms of overall transport? Of course we do. But dumping them off a flatbed truck at 4AM and YOLO'ing is not how you do it either. But it is how you get myself and people like me loading them into dumpsters to be hauled away.
The amount of space in the "public commons" allocated to free car parking dwarfs the space taken up by these scooters.
What if instead of banning a new transportation paradigm, the city had decided to work with the companies to convert 1/4 of the public parking spaces to scooter storage areas?
This is so obvious especially if you also bike. Cars are dangerous, polluting (breathing inside a tunnel makes that obvious) and take up ridiculous space for 1 person and don't get shared / re-used!
