2023-09-23 08:35:00
Open up, sea, IT is floating! I don’t want to offend anyone, but static scooter riders cutting through the crowd really look like environmental disturbers. Liberal verbiage, of course, believes that “everyone has the right to travel on whatever is most convenient for them.”
As usual, the second part of this fair declaration is ignored: “any of your rights should not violate the rights of another person.” And in the case of scooters, the freedom of movement of ordinary passers-by is affected both literally and figuratively. Our statistics are silent about deaths and injuries involving these riders, but we cannot ignore such obvious damage to passers-by as tension and stress when crossing potentially dangerous “chariots.”
What a paradox: the first city where a newfangled alternative to walking was banned was freedom-loving Paris. Of course, the strict preventive measure there did not arise out of nowhere, but through the efforts of the scooter riders themselves, who repeatedly crossed the red line. In 2022, three people were killed and 459 injured in traffic accidents involving Paris stand-up mobility devices. At the end of June this year, two people on a scooter crashed into a 31-year-old Italian woman standing on the banks of the Seine River. The woman died from life-threatening injuries, and the perpetrators of the accident fled.
The Parisian authorities held a referendum asking whether citizens consider it right to ban this type of transport altogether. A network of 21 survey points was deployed in the city. 100 thousand people took part in the vote, 89% of them favored the ban. And although only 8% of the total population took part in the referendum, the capital’s mayor’s office accepted the results of the survey as a guide to action. Since September 1, the myriad of scooters for rent have disappeared from the streets of Paris.
Well, what are we expecting? In September, the annual international car-free day is announced. The public has already come to understand the need to reduce these countless flows of dubious comfort. But the cult of the big automobile “brother” turned around and immediately began to disintegrate into the mass use of small wheeled forms: bicycles, scooters, scooters and other “mini-cars”. All this excess now pollutes the urban environment not only on the roadway, but also on the sidewalks.
A kind of “pedophobia” broke out: just don’t walk with your feet! Why? This natural remedy is free, healthy, always with you and does not require parking. As for the gain in speed, within the city this option, as is known, is limited by traffic police rules for motorists and should be suppressed even more in pedestrian areas.
It’s not a sin to assume that a person on a scooter is rushing not so much towards something or somewhere, but away from himself. After all, while walking, thoughts come into your head, and in general you think better. What if someone doesn’t have the head for this? Since thoughts cannot keep up with driving with the wind, then someone still needs to think about this head. This is the happy occasion when it is again not a sin to accept Paris as a trendsetter.
Tamara Hlushchenko
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