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Outside Scaffoldshire Place - available right now - let's make them legal asap.From tomorrow, a trial of rentable e-scooters begins in Stafford and Newcastle-u-Lyme. So expect some pretty bad driving on the pavements in the morning!! Watch out!!
Current legislation is such that e-scooters cannot be used on roads or pathways - they can actually only be legally used on private land with the land owners permission.
This is quite obviously ridiculous and hire schemes like this are being rolled out - exempt from the above conditions - to gauge how they can be accommodated in the commuting landscape. Equally obviously this is going to lead to the Watch Out!! (bit surprised there wasn't a third ! there) brigade, but we need this, and we need to just take a f**king chill pill and let these vehicles on the pavement.
Yes, there will always be dicks, and there will be some of them on e-scooters, but let's not just cave in over sporadic dickishness. This could be a really attractive way out.
We need to get people out of cars, and buses too, given the situation that we're not likely to get out of anytime soon - at least until they are no longer the exhaust pipes of doom, and the petri dishes of disaster - the e-scooter is part of the way forward.
Please don't be dicks about it - yes they weren't something you saw in the 70's, but that's not ipso facto a bad thing.