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This wouldn't surprise me at all, if it almost entirely be rental scooters.
Here in Adelaide, they have these rental scooters lining the sidewalks on the nightlife strips - on the weekend!
This seems to me to be almost criminally negligent. What do they think young people are going to do with these things, while drunk? They are going to ride them, while drunk, and they are going to have accidents, of course. Because they're drunk.
I like the rental scooters, as they're a great way of getting round the city when you're in a hurry, but they should shut them down on the weekend evenings, FFS.
My buddy happened upon one that was fully operational while drunk. He didn't even pay, it was just on. He decided to go for a ride, then fuck it, why not try a wheelie? 1 broken foot later.
Tbh, I'm not a fan. In a vacuum they might be cool, but here in Brisbane their introduction is what encourage the Council to remove their own sharebike scheme. CityCycle wasn't ebikes, but it also didn't cost over $20 for a fairly short return trip. For just $2, you could take as many rides you want, up to 30 minutes each ride, for a whole 24 hours. Even buying Neuron's 30-day passes costs 50% more than doing day-by-day on CityCycle did if you buy every single day, and over double if you take CityCycle every weekday only. And CityCycle also had cheaper options for longer-term plans.
Plus, being docked meant CityCycles weren't getting strewn all over footpaths, and meant you knew where you needed to go to get one. Slightly less convenient when dropping off was a more than worthwhile trade-off.
And worst of all, Council paid for CityCycle by getting advertising billboard company JCDecaux to run it, in exchange for allowing them to put ads on footpaths and buses. And now despite CityCycle being removed, they're still allowed to keep the ads.
Sounds like a good case for banning cars from nightlife strips during peak activity hours.
They should shut down all cars too. Those things are designed to kill people. It's one of the core features of a car - murdering people legally.