If e-scooters will have to have insurance and id plates on them please please extend it to bicycles as well. Also I live in swindon No trial here so London isn't the last place.
How hard is it to make a e scooter license with a 4 point penalty scheme and age 17yr to 23yr 15.5 mph 23yr old upwards 20mph to 30mph . You speed or break the law and go over 4pts you lose the license for 12 months. You get caught with no licence its 500 pound fine and scooter taken away and smashed. Scooters that do 40mph plus put on the driver's license or create a performance license. You could use that to police the scooters and then make people get insurance policy that covers for injuries and if you hurt someone or smash their property . Also each license can have a special number and your intials ie SA1256 which could be made into a sticker or plate that's visible so if they need reporting its easier. I don't know it's so bloody stupid our country is getting left behind and hard working sensible people get hit in the pockets it's a joke.
Why has it taken so long for London, because they had to grease a lot more palms compared to other parts of the country. There is no issue with safety, you can buy an ebicycle with 8 inch wheels if you wanted to and ride that on the road perfectly legal, where's the difference. You can ride on the road at the age of well there is no minimum age to riding a bicycle on the road, and it would be perfectly legal. So what the hell are they talking about safety, it's bull crap. They had to work out who would get the biggest bung. You can hire an electric bike never ridden on London streets in your life, you can hire a non powered bicycle never ridden in your life before and go straight out onto the streets of London, if they were truly interested in safety they would have 1 banned all learner drivers in London, 2 make all cyclists take a test before allowing them on the streets of London, and 3, ensure all hired bicycle riders have a license before allowing them to use the streets of London. But they don't, in fact they encourage people who have absolutely no road sense to hire their bicycles. Escooter riders who own their own ride take the time to learn how to ride, with the exception of the youths who ride like twits on anything including bicycles. That's just the way youths are, they ride like twits on bikes, roller skates even kick scooters, hell they even walk like twits some times.
Spot on mate, I 100% agree with you. I especially hate when people that have no clue simply generalize on the matter saying things like ''they all do this'', '' they all do that''. Just because they have seen a few kids behaving like kids, which is the absolute normality.
Couldn't have said it better. It's more about the money in their eyes. Usually the thing would be allow private owners on the road make regulations based on those riders cos that's real life usage and then allow the rentals
Well said ! Thumbs up 👍 Mass protests is the only way forward. There are over a million privately owned e scooters in Uk sold throughout nationwide retailers, people will not stop riding them. Keeping those illegal only promote bad behaviour and crime. Make them legal , make it safer for all.
If e-scooters will have to have insurance and id plates on them please please extend it to bicycles as well. Also I live in swindon No trial here so London isn't the last place.
How hard is it to make a e scooter license with a 4 point penalty scheme and age 17yr to 23yr 15.5 mph 23yr old upwards 20mph to 30mph .
You speed or break the law and go over 4pts you lose the license for 12 months. You get caught with no licence its 500 pound fine and scooter taken away and smashed. Scooters that do 40mph plus put on the driver's license or create a performance license. You could use that to police the scooters and then make people get insurance policy that covers for injuries and if you hurt someone or smash their property .
Also each license can have a special number and your intials ie SA1256 which could be made into a sticker or plate that's visible so if they need reporting its easier.
I don't know it's so bloody stupid our country is getting left behind and hard working sensible people get hit in the pockets it's a joke.
Saw these today in Fulham, going to sign up and try them out hope the trials go well want to be able to rip my EUC with out fear.
Why has it taken so long for London, because they had to grease a lot more palms compared to other parts of the country.
There is no issue with safety, you can buy an ebicycle with 8 inch wheels if you wanted to and ride that on the road perfectly legal, where's the difference.
You can ride on the road at the age of well there is no minimum age to riding a bicycle on the road, and it would be perfectly legal.
So what the hell are they talking about safety, it's bull crap.
They had to work out who would get the biggest bung.
You can hire an electric bike never ridden on London streets in your life, you can hire a non powered bicycle never ridden in your life before and go straight out onto the streets of London, if they were truly interested in safety they would have 1 banned all learner drivers in London, 2 make all cyclists take a test before allowing them on the streets of London, and 3, ensure all hired bicycle riders have a license before allowing them to use the streets of London.
But they don't, in fact they encourage people who have absolutely no road sense to hire their bicycles.
Escooter riders who own their own ride take the time to learn how to ride, with the exception of the youths who ride like twits on anything including bicycles.
That's just the way youths are, they ride like twits on bikes, roller skates even kick scooters, hell they even walk like twits some times.
Spot on mate, I 100% agree with you.
I especially hate when people that have no clue simply generalize on the matter saying things like ''they all do this'', '' they all do that''. Just because they have seen a few kids behaving like kids, which is the absolute normality.
Couldn't have said it better. It's more about the money in their eyes. Usually the thing would be allow private owners on the road make regulations based on those riders cos that's real life usage and then allow the rentals
Well said ! Thumbs up 👍
Mass protests is the only way forward. There are over a million privately owned e scooters in Uk sold throughout nationwide retailers, people will not stop riding them. Keeping those illegal only promote bad behaviour and crime. Make them legal , make it safer for all.