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  1. unethical life pro tip

    the trouble with e-scooters, which are convenient and a lot of fun, is e-waste: how do you get rid of these large, dangerous batteries when the device hits its inevitable EOL?

    a problem which I’ve solved: when the battery won’t charge any more, you leave the e-scooter chained up with a masterlock for a few hours near any large mall and poof: not your problem any more

    if there’s a bad fire in a nearby tenement building it might be on your conscience, though

  2. escooters need ambassadors

    I like e-scooters - they’re fun, practical, and much easier than a bike to be polite with (at low speeds it’s extremely easy to control and dismount, so the chance of getting in a crash is very low and it’s quite easy to give people loads of space). I also see myself as something of an ambassador for them: look, everyone, it’s absolutely possible to use these things responsibly.

    I think that widespread e-scooter use would be, on average, very good: anything that means fewer cars on the road is a significant improvement. Most of the people who hate e-scooters have never tried riding one.

    The average person’s opinion (see: reddit, town hall meetings) of e-scooters and e-bikes is quite low, though, because most of them are “teenagers or busy delivery workers given access to a much too powerful lightweight vehicle without any training or licensing”.

    Part of that is that scooters really shouldn’t be going higher than 25-30km/h, average bike speeds. That’s tough to regulate, though, because people can claim that they’re not buying them to use on public roads. (Speed limiters, in general, are tough to regulate.)

    anyways, “some asshole goes on the highway on a scooter” absolutely does not help

  3. e-scooter beats e-bike

    I bought a cherry e-cargo-bike but actually

    the tiny, significantly cheaper e-scooter is easier to ride, more fun, and with a backpack offers comparable cargo capacity

  4. fake bike lanes

    My new home city, Coquitlam, has a handful of new, really good pedestrian/bike lanes: here I’m talking large, wide, mixed use lanes separated from traffic with tree cover that I see people and bikes using comfortably. Nice.

    New West had a few of those, too, I’d follow the nice one under the skytrain all the way to Metrotown from Edmonds on sunny days, sometimes.

    There are also no shortage of fake bike lanes.

    You know, the tiny strip of paint half-heartedly placed beside a busy highway.

    I don’t think these should exist at all, to be honest. These are some dogshit bike lanes,