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Posted: 23:37 - 12 Sep 2022 Post subject: E scooter trial in Canterbury to end after two years |
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Just had this pop up and not sure how relevent it is but if a council is actually cutting short it's trial due to safety issues surely that's going to affect all the other trials over the country?
The pilot scheme launched in Canterbury in November 2020 for an initial 12-month period but, despite public safety fears and a pedestrian being knocked down, has twice been extended. However, Kent County Council has now rejected an offer from the Department for Transport to continue the trial until May 2024 - well beyond its current end date of November 30 this year. The politician overseeing the trial - KCC's cabinet member for transport, Cllr David Brazier - says he decided to "truncate it before someone was seriously hurt”.
How they are actually coing to police it is of course a totally different kettle of fish. Private scooters are all over MK despite the police saying that the riders are very naughty boys. ____________________ Triumph Trophy Launch Edition |
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You sound like someone who has issues. Here;s a picture of a scooter. Point at where the bad person hurt you.
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41j1muS8rrL._AC_UL320_.jpg ____________________ trevor saxe-coburg-gotha:"Remember this simple rule - scooters are for men who like to feel the breeze on their huge, flapping cunt lips."
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If they're going to muck people around then I'll have a say about it anyway I like your new wheels you must feel fabulous on the way to the pub. |
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They just don't seem like a good idea in highly crowded urban areas. There's a risk that the "trial" company might simply be seen as a means of rental income, for some cash-strapped councils. There have been a couple of deaths - I think they occurred because the rider was intoxicated, and the only victim was the rider. So far. However, there's a certain injustice about letting these things share the pavements with peds. Simple physics - dumb kid speeding along on an e-scooter smashes into old granny walking around the corner. Does he even stop? Don't think so. If he does, what are the consequences for him, the e-scooter company, the insurer, etc.? Inconsequential, right? Easily costed, easy to risk assess, news for 2 days in the local papers, then forgotten. And someone could be left with life-changing injuries, or having to make multiple hospital and consultant visits over the course of months. If you have a trial scooter scheme, it does tend to make illegal e-scooter use seen as a socially acceptable choice. I don't see what's wrong with bicycles. There is nothing an e-scooter can do that a pushbike can't, except for make you look like a twat. |
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Bhud wrote: | There is nothing an e-scooter can do that a pushbike can't, except for make you look like a twat. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 1 year, 237 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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