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Electric scooters on footpaths

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  • 30-06-2020 9:15am
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    sabat
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,896 ✭✭✭


    I'm seeing this several times a day now around the city centre and they're always going at top speed, even weaving in and out of pedestrians. If any of them are reading this, please note-you're getting clotheslined if you come towards me like that again. Selfish pricks.


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    Hurrache
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    I've got you covered bro.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058081847


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    Tacitus Kilgore
    Registered Users Posts: 2,128 ✭✭✭Tacitus Kilgore


    sabat wrote: »
    I'm seeing this several times a day now around the city centre and they're always going at top speed, even weaving in and out of pedestrians. If any of them are reading this, please note-you're getting clotheslined if you come towards me like that again. Selfish pricks.


    Which city?


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    07Lapierre
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    To be fair, you cant expect them to go on the road can you?


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    whisky_galore
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    Tacitus Kilgore wrote: »
    Which city?

    The only city that matters..


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    Tarabuses
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    07Lapierre wrote: »
    To be fair, you cant expect them to go on the road can you?

    My understanding is that they shouldn't be used anywhere.


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    antodeco
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    Scooters should be used, but aren't legal (which I expect to change this year).

    Cyclists are also required to have lights and helmets and not cycle on paths.

    I've said this before. You get idiot scooter drivers. You get idiot cyclists. You get idiot motorists.

    Also OP, I've seen people going around clotheslining people on footpaths.

    Guess which of the above is the worst thing?


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    Gatling
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    They were made legal in the UK today ,
    Owners must be over 16 and hold either a provisional /full,car bike ,moped license and wear a helmet,

    Expect us to follow suit
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    07Lapierre
    Registered Users Posts: 8,219 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    Tarabuses wrote: »
    My understanding is that they shouldn't be used anywhere.

    Yep..private property only. Crazy really.


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    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    The only city that matters..

    Must be Kilkenny then


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    Wishbone Ash
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    antodeco wrote: »
    ...Cyclists are also required to have lights and helmets...
    You could do with studying the road traffic regulations. There is no legal requirement for a cyclist to wear a helmet.


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    Working class heroes
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    antodeco wrote: »
    Scooters should be used, but aren't legal (which I expect to change this year).

    Cyclists are also required to have lights and helmets and not cycle on paths.

    I've said this before. You get idiot scooter drivers. You get idiot cyclists. You get idiot motorists.

    Also OP, I've seen people going around clotheslining people on footpaths.

    Guess which of the above is the worst thing?

    No, helmets are not a legal requirement.

    No, as scooters are illegal then all scooter “drivers” are idiots for breaking the law.

    Racism is now hiding behind the cloak of Community activism.



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    magicbastarder
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    most drivers break the law, ergo most drivers are idiots. do i win a prize?


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    Working class heroes
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    magicbastarder wrote: »
    most drivers break the law, ergo most drivers are idiots. do i win a prize?

    You can drive a car on a public road without breaking the law.
    You can not drive a scooter on a public road without breaking the law.

    I hope this clears things up for you.

    Racism is now hiding behind the cloak of Community activism.



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    Mefistofelino
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    Gatling wrote: »
    They were made legal in the UK today ,
    Owners must be over 16 and hold either a provisional /full,car bike ,moped license and wear a helmet,

    Expect us to follow suit

    Not entirely true.

    The age and licensing requirements are correct.

    Rental e-scooter schemes are now legal from next weekend (July 4th). Privately-owned e-scooters remain illegal.

    Helmets are recommended but not compulsory.


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    sabat
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    antodeco wrote: »
    Scooters should be used, but aren't legal (which I expect to change this year).

    Cyclists are also required to have lights and helmets and not cycle on paths.

    I've said this before. You get idiot scooter drivers. You get idiot cyclists. You get idiot motorists.

    Also OP, I've seen people going around clotheslining people on footpaths.

    Guess which of the above is the worst thing?

    I think the scooters should be legal too for over 16s following some kind of safety instruction; I might even get one myself. What I'm talking about isn't scooter users acting idiotically-psychotically would be more appropriate, like they don't even understand that other people exist. They are flying along the footpaths on major pedestrian routes like Henry St and O'Connell St weaving in and out of people at full speed. It's got particularly noticeable just in the last 2 weeks-even after I posted this yesterday I saw several more. Inevitably some toddler or elderly person will get badly skulled.


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    magicbastarder
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    it's an issue of enforcement. any of those examples you give could be easily prosecuted, and you just need people to be aware that they could get done for that activity, to curtail it significantly.


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    Marcusm
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    Gatling wrote: »
    They were made legal in the UK today ,
    Owners must be over 16 and hold either a provisional /full,car bike ,moped license and wear a helmet,

    Expect us to follow suit

    They must also be hired from a licenced renter, ie you cannot use a privately owned one and the hire-licences haven’t been granted yet. It’s a trial.


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    Carawaystick
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    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    You could do with studying the road traffic regulations. There is no legal requirement for a cyclist to wear a helmet.

    And no requirement for lights the majority of the time


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    Mrcaramelchoc
    Registered Users Posts: 1,795 ✭✭✭Mrcaramelchoc


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    You could do with studying the road traffic regulations. There is no legal requirement for a cyclist to wear a helmet.

    No because they own the roads.everyone knows that.


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    07Lapierre
    Registered Users Posts: 8,219 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    Carawaystick wrote: »
    And no requirement for lights the majority of the time

    That's right. Lights are only required during the hours of darkness.


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    #22
    Hairy Japanese BASTARDS!
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    Mrcaramelchoc wrote: »
    No because they own the roads.everyone knows that.

    Here we go again.

    Is there a cyclist version of Goodwin's Law?


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