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105 sats \ 6 replies \ @KingZing 20 Feb 2023 \ on: Carless cities? What about these are bitcoiners so against? C'mon guys. bitcoin
I own a e-scooter and a car, and I still hate these e-scooters on road.
Every time I see one of them I feel very frustrated.
they LOVE dashing through pedestrian lane and roads. Some drive on roads, getting to the front when there's red light and proceed to hog down the entire lane, forcing cars to take risk just to overtake them.
Even in dedicated bike lane, I keep seeing a lot driving on pedestrian lane and actually saw one almost crashing into a child just yesterday.
They don't take driving test, they have very poor sense of awareness, they make turning on normal road quite a bit riskier.
They simply cannot replace my car, which I use to visit fds and families living in the suburb, nor can they carry the load.
I honestly don't think what you are asking would become like, look at taiwan and vietnam if you want to see what a road filled with bikes (eg motorbikes) look like. They park their bikes in pedestrian lane, so they drive from there to get into the main road very often. I rarely feel safe walking in Taiwan because motorbikes would be driving past me all the time, and the amount of packed bikers is a horrible sight.
Vietnam is amazing. Minimal gridlock and high mobility, due to lower requirements for purchase, hire, cost, licences. Safety is an issue, deaths are statistically high. But you know, with greater freedom comes greater responsibility.
As far as electric vehicles go, it has its own issues, and can empathize with parking being problematic to pedestrians but I think that's an area that would be easier to police. Over-policing restricts freedom.
I suppose, ideally, you want to encourage all forms of transport. As a pedestrian, I don't feel safe crossing multi-lane roads with any powered-vehicle! I get your point but we need vehicles. Affordable and reliable. I used Grab motorbikes to pick me up from airports. Never had a single problem.
In other countries, taxis used to be okay (as public companies) now it's just a hassle to hail one and not competitively priced.
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I travel in SEA region a lot, personally it was never comfortable driving or sitting in ride or even walking in Philippines and Vietnam.
There is a huge lack of driving manner, no turn signal for making a turn/parking.
I myself got into a small traffic accidents even in China where it's quite a fair bit better, the driver didn't give way and had a bump.
But what I dislike the most is where there are too many ebikes/motorcycle driving up onto pedestrian way to park and exit parking especially because the population density is so high
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Yeah, I do to. Sure there's a trade off but I think it's unique to each location and driver/rider/pedestrian sensibilities are a very local thing.
I had a friend who was hit by a food delivery driver on an e-bike while walking along an alley way. She was born in the country it happened in. So, I do get your point.
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Mentioning PRC, I remember cities littered with heaps of public share bikes too. That was the country my friend got whacked from the scooter coming from behind.
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China had so much shared bikes it was pretty crazy, I actually walked past one of these dump.
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/03/bike-share-oversupply-in-china-huge-piles-of-abandoned-and-broken-bicycles/556268/
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Jeez. They should recycle all that scrap into mining rigs
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