Lime scooters have mainly been taking up space on footpaths when it should perhaps be road space that they are sharing. There are certainly reasonable concerns about the risk of injury from e-scooters, including Lime scooters. On the other hand, there is a potential for transformative benefits if we manage electric scooters well. To accommodate the widespread use of electric scooters in ways that might contribute to wellbeing and fairness, we will need to move them off the footpath and into the road space. Lime scooters are taking up public footpath space, but as this photo shows, in the background, so is a car.

Source: Otago Daily Times April 14, 2019 15:22 UTC