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]
12:14pm, I’ll go first… smoooooooooch! 🙂
12:08PM, you are assuming many things…
ah, ‘puter communication really allows the mind to fantasize a bit too much… that’s the inherent danger of the medium…
Well, with your description of me to the gendarmes, if I do jaywalk I won’t have to be concerned… oh, and by the way, shop at Pathmark, now we’re talking about a real
hazard to health and safety… 🙂
Are you really this passionate about this? Why? How? You are so much more similar than you think. Really. Kiss and make up! Do it!
It’s also illegal to jaywalk, so next time I see your skinny white ass walkin over to take your car to Pathmark, Bren…I’m callin the cops.
11:35 AM, I didn’t know that disagreeing with
an idea or action turned me into “one angry person”… I could just as easily say that about the folks who disagree with me… my goodness one poster ( I assumed jokingly) wanted to get a group together and TP my home! 🙂
I would hope that folks would save their outrage and “pain” for those things in this life that truly matter.
In the meanwhile, until further notice, it’s illegal to park on residential sidewalks with
any sort of motor powered vehicle…
If the law offends you then do something about it legally… don’t infringe on the citizenry’s right to vehicle free sidewalks.
The mob is so vociferous, unruly and bitter when the stakes are so low. Principle, pragmatism, and the principle of pragmatism converge into a crisis that is so (un)important.
I don’t own a car OR motorcycle, Bren.
I walk EVERYWHERE…INCLUDING Key Food.
How about you? Car? Two of them, no doubt.
Put your money where your mouth is, go get laid and shut your mouth when you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Why yes… you have a marvelous point, you just don’t take it far enough 11:31AM…
Ban EVERY gas powered form of transportation, two wheels or four wheels…
Don’t justify your sad usage of a motorcycle or scooter to go to Fairway because YOU’RE
too lazy to walk to Key Food!
God said she thinks that your suggestion
is one of someone who feels very entitled!
I have had BOTH a Ninja 475lb motorcycle stolen off the street and another GPZ 750 knocked over twice in the streets and left on the ground.
Try picking up a 500lb motorcycle off the street!!! We have garbage cans, bicycles, and lots of other things on the sidewalks of NYC, it is what it is.