In the event you marvel how the New York Town motor scooter scenario goes, right here’s your solution:
Motor scooters must indisputably have license plates, however I don’t see how that’s going to stay idiots from using them at the sidewalks–subsequent time any individual in a automobile with a registration number plate does one thing reckless, move forward and contact 911 with a plate quantity and spot how that works out for you.
In some way I’ve virtually come to love the motor scooters as a result of they’re the only factor everybody within the town turns out to agree on; just about everybody hates them, or even the secure side road advocates don’t truly appear to protect them anymore. But even so blackouts and terrorist assaults, motor scooters look like just about the one factor that may carry New Yorkers in combination. On this sense they’re turning into an emblem of solidarity, and I feel this gentleman speaks for all people:
[“What are you, meshugeneh?”]
Please observe on the other hand that I stated “virtually,” and most commonly I simply hate* them as a result of they’re ruining the motorbike paths and in most cases suck ass:
*[I don’t intrinsically hate motor scooters, I think they’re great in the road where they belong, I just hate them the way people in New York use them, which in keeping with the way we do most things here is completely ass-backwards.]
They run the fuck out of the crimson lighting, too, and as an enlightened motorist who’s in most cases prone to offer someone else who’s now not using a automotive a lot of wiggle room I will be able to most effective conclude that these kinds of other folks merely need to die.
One more reason to just about like motor scooters is that New Yorkers’ expanding hatred of them (in addition to the e-bikes and e-scooters and different fast-moving nuisance units which might be in most cases related to them) might after all be distracting them from how a lot they used to hate common motorcycles:
Although I assume it’ll be that a lot more difficult to get someone to toughen new motorbike lanes, that are now not motorbike lanes anyway, so it almost definitely doesn’t subject. ( Simply trip a standard motorbike in a so-called “motorbike lane” and rely how again and again any individual honks a type of disturbing digital e-bike horns at you.) At this level we’d like separate e-bike lanes and common motorbike lanes identical to we’ve separate parkways and expressways for vehicles and vans, however excellent good fortune implementing that. You’ll say license plates make it imaginable to split vehicles and vans, however in the end it most effective works as a result of should you power a truck on a throughway in New York that is what occurs:
That Robert Moses used to be fiendishly suave.
In the meantime, the previous day the motive force of an NYPD tow truck killed a tender kid whilst towing away some asshole’s automotive with bullshit out-of-state plates:
Who had racked up an excellent choice of digicam tickets:
Towing a automotive with a shitload of tickets can be a win for license plates if most effective we had been ready to take action with out killing a kid within the procedure. Whether or not it’s vehicles or scooters or anything, everybody at all times thinks they’ve the answer: Extra motorbike lanes! Extra intersection daylighting! Eliminate the motorbike lanes! Obligatory registration and licensing for e-bikes! However after awhile it will get more difficult and more difficult to not interact in “New York exceptionalism” and conclude we’re uniquely silly and incapable of working any automobile in any scenario in a remotely competent means. We’re so dumb that should you banned the whole thing with the exception of for public transportation we’d nonetheless set up to run each and every different over with our grocery carts:
Except for a Town Council member to suggest necessary grocery cart registration inside the subsequent 10 years.
Talking of existence in New York, how about a motorbike trail between the George Washington Bridge and the Tappan Zee Mario Cuomo Bridge?
This can be a vastly well-liked house for cyclists, particularly because the Tappan Zee Mario Cuomo Bride motorbike trail opened again in 2020 or no matter it used to be, but but even so the bridge paths themselves there are nearly no facilities for them except for indicators ordering them to trip single-file:
The above makes it sound like everybody’s simply casually using as much as Canada, however principally it’s other folks doing the bridge loop by means of using up one facet of the Hudson and down the opposite:
Anyway, I truly must have transform an city planner or no matter, as it positive turns out like simple cash:
I were given your find out about proper right here:
Simply give me 300 grand and we’ll name it even.
Mockingly, it’s the individuals who lately trip 9W who stand to lose essentially the most, since they’re virtually totally roadies and a trail stuffed with “normies” might not be conducive to humorless high-speed paceline using. On the other hand none of it truly issues because it gained’t be lengthy till it’s taken over by means of motor scooters and nuisance units.
Fuck it, I’m using the Previous Croton Aqueduct.