Scooter Sweep in the Slope
Are the city’s powers that be conspiring to rid Brooklyn sidewalks of scooters? Yes, according to a poster on the Forum who says the mayor’s office directed the police to “get them all off the sidewalks last week.” When we walked down a stretch of Third Street on Sunday, there were a number of scoots…
Are the city’s powers that be conspiring to rid Brooklyn sidewalks of scooters? Yes, according to a poster on the Forum who says the mayor’s office directed the police to “get them all off the sidewalks last week.” When we walked down a stretch of Third Street on Sunday, there were a number of scoots and motorcycles parked on the sidewalk (like the ones above), but a couple of guys we talked to who live on the street said they’d noticed some scooters being impounded last week, which “happens from time to time.” An officer from the 78th Precinct said that as far as she knows, the precinct hasn’t been ratcheting up pressure on scooter owners who park on sidewalks. “I don’t think we’re doing it any more lately than usual,” said Office Ashby. “We tend to respond to complaints from home owners.” Whether or not cops have been towing more scooters than usual lately, we sympathize with the plight of two-wheelers who don’t want to see their rides wrecked by parking in the street. And it doesn’t seem like taking up a bit of sidewalk on a wide thoroughfare like Third Street really gets in anyone’s way. But beyond that, as one person on the Forum commented, “Here’s an enlightened idea for the Mayor’s office… just provide safe and legal scooter parking SOMEWHERE and watch the scooters in that area just fly off the sidewalks!”
Scooter Parking [Forum]
I would move to another city where your scooters can park as cars safely. NYC is a shithole of a city where no one gives a fuck about anyone.
My car gets dented on a regular from street parking.
I’m wondering how fast it would take for the city and police to take action if instead of a bike receiving $250 to $600 in damage for parking legally in the street, it would be a legally parked car or SUV instead. Each night. Until space is made available for all motorists, or none. Let’s make it fair.
The Mayor is a Mod-Hater too, Big Brother comes in all forms.
-NJ
Last night I saw a guy with his scooter parked in front of our building, putting his license plate back on via velcro. Hilarious.
Bren- you can be so good. What are you talking about this morning?
It’s difficult enough for firefighters and
emergency response vehicles responding to a
call in nyc’s many narrow streets… having to weave and duck around illegally parked ‘cycles, scooters and bikes on residential sidewalks endangers lives and property.
wow people really argue about anything and everything on here. weird
I still don’t get the ‘endangers others’ aspect of peoples arguments.
Granted, there are two wheelers out there who park on the sidewalk in peoples way, but the vast majority are responsible and bikes are placed in line with other obstructions on the sidewalk where people would not normally be walking.
Can anyone here cite one instance where a bike, on it’s own without human interference, fell over and hurt someone?