Santa Monica starts e-scooter crackdown

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Santa Monica starts e-scooter crackdown

July 22, 2018 by Drunk Engineer

Apparently, the Santa Monica PD has eliminated all crime and car crashes in their city — because what could possibly be less important than this:

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Segways are legal, but not e-scooters…

Posted in risk | Tagged scooters | 7 Comments

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on July 23, 2018 at 8:00 am | Reply Steve Seebart

Back in the 80’s, I commuted to work with my bike on this shared-use path (from Redondo Beach to Westwood). It was hard enough to navigate the pedestrians, tourists and skaters in congested areas. Adding motorized scooters to the mix would have driven me back to my car.
on July 23, 2018 at 8:48 am | Reply Today’s Headlines – Streetsblog Los Angeles

[…] Santa Monica PD Rounding Up E-Scooters On Beach Path (Systemic Failure) […]
on July 23, 2018 at 9:58 am | Reply Hans Laetz

Why don’t you contact the woman whose skull was bashed in by a Scooter rider on the bike path, and deliver your snark ??? Or better yet, try to recover any shred of common sense. Motorized vehicles + ped/bike way * overcrowded = stooopid. https://www.change.org/p/kevin-mckeown-banning-restricting-motorized-scooters-in-santa-monica
on July 23, 2018 at 10:27 am | Reply Jason

Here’s some important context for e-scooters on the bike path:

“In utility cycling there is a large variation; an elderly person on an upright roadster might do less than 10 km/h $6.2 mph$ while a fitter or younger person could easily do twice that on the same bicycle. For cyclists in Copenhagen, the average cycling speed is 15.5 km/h $9.6 mph$.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_performance#Typical_speeds)

Here’s a picture of people cycling in Copenhagen: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Cyclists_at_red_2.jpg/1200px-Cyclists_at_red_2.jpg

Meanwhile there are plenty of spandex-clad people on high-performance bikes on the bike path.

The pedestrians walking on the bike path are far more out of place than the e-scooters are, just going by typical speeds.
- on July 23, 2018 at 10:29 am | Reply Jason
  
  I meant to include this from the first link as well, since this is applicable to a lot of people you see on the bike path: “On a racing bicycle, a reasonably fit rider can ride at 40 km/h (25 mph) on flat surface.”
on July 27, 2018 at 10:27 am | Reply Resident Pedestrian

Tickets for 1 infraction are $190 and the person who gets the ticket, if they live in CA, will face traffic school, too. I really, really, really look forward to scooter scofflaws plowing a lot of money into our coffers this way, so thank you, scofflaws, for not reading the terms and conditions of using those things. And look out for dog poop on the decks, when you leave them on a sidewalk, the neighbors take revenge in some really nasty, sticky ways. Disrupt the disrupters!
on August 2, 2018 at 1:45 pm | Reply L.A. City Councilmember Koretz Proposes E-Scooter Ban – Streetsblog Los Angeles

[…] limiting e-scooters, but were overruled by their city council. Santa Monica police have been actively ticketing e-scooter violations, including riding on the beach path where they are […]