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Originally Posted by curves2000
Vespa's and those little small city/commuter style bikes really do make a lot of sense for a lot of people for quick, local needs. In Europe and other countries you see countless of them but not really in Calgary which is somewhat surprising, barely any ever. I am actually shocked you don't see any of these Skip and Uber eats drivers doing deliveries with the big basket in the back downtown, makes total sense.
They can fill some voids for sure and of course you need to be careful and there are risks for sure, they are not toys. This being said, the little electric Bird and Line scooters you see people riding around downtown are a little different ball game. People think they are toys and do stupid things with them but the repercussions are exactly what you think, these are motorcycle crashes, often times without helmets.
Medical friends who work downtown emergency at Shumir talk about nights with 40+ crashes a night of varying injuries. A friend who runs a neurological ICU in Edmonton talks about the life altering injuries he see's frequently with young people and these things.
You need to be 100% on and alert all the time and anticipate others movements but yes, little scooters are a lot of fun and cool.
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Often? It's an earthshattering surprise to ever see somebody with an actual helmet; probably less than 5 times from what I can recall from my own experience seeing them around in all these years.
I've met people with broken jaws, arms and new sets of teeth from using scooters. Most people can't even properly operate a shopping cart. It's hardly a surprise when you hear about people getting royally ####ed up using scooters.