Lime Scooters - Lime Juicer life

[Oling_Roachinen]

Here's the actual allowances according to the City.

Operating a personally owned electric scooter anywhere on the road right of way, including city sidewalks, bike lanes or roadway is still illegal under the Alberta Traffic Safety Act. Personal electric scooters are allowed to operate on pathways. The provincial exemption to operate an electric scooter only applies to the electric scooters owned by Permit Holders operating in the Shared Electric Scooter Pilot.

Electric scooters are described as a miniature vehicle that is normally prohibited from being operated on any public sidewalk or street. With the permission of the Province, we have been able to allow shared electric scooters to operate on sidewalks, pathways and within marked bicycle lanes for the duration of this pilot project.

So the pathway is fair game and doesn't seem to be the City's choice.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

So you can use them on the bike paths, but you have to carry them to the bike paths? That's still really dumb.

[Oling_Roachinen]

You might be able to roll them there, depending on the interpretation of 'operated'. Yeah, I agree

[burn_this_city]

Just paint your personal scooter white and green and go incognito.

[shermanator]

Ran into a bunch of these on a walk along the neighbourhood and had to give them a try. They're super easy to unlock and start up. Definitely feels a little unnatural at first. Would not recommend riding them on a sidewalk with a lot of driveways...

8/10 would try again.

[cracher]

Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen

What I will say is that they are not quite the same. Lime scooters in Calgary have a maximum speed of 20 km/hour. I was passed by a private escooter on the bike path the other day, he blew by me. I was doing almost 30 km/hour, he had to have been going over 40 if not 50.

Not really arguing your point, but clarifying something. I have 2 scooters (one of which appears on your list of fastest scooters). These are simple machines. At least on my two, the speed caps don't take feedback from the speedometer itself. It seems to just cap the amount of electricity the motor sees. So a 60lb child will see 25kph on a escooter "speed capped" at 20. Haven't tested thoroughly on the Lime, but the 1 time I let my kid try it, she was already at 22 when I told her to stop (I normally limit her to 15kph - love the Gotrax GXL for kids).

[Hot_Flatus]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

Make it easily replaceable with a special key that you give the juicers, like a wheel lock. The whole point of these things is to provide people with a clean method of inner city travel, having people drive around in large trucks to collect and then return all of these scooters seems to nullify that.

Yeah faux clean transport like the electric car (and everything else) that get's it juice primarily from the coal fired powered plant down the line.

[Wormius]

Saw a guy riding an actual scooter / moped on the Nose Creek pathway today. Not sure if he was lost or what. The Lime and Bird people seem to be utterly confused about where to go - zigzag across pedestrian and bike lanes around East Village- sure.

[Nufy]

SO much for the sidewalk rule...

I just walked from TC Tower to 10 Avenue and back and the only place I saw the scooters were on the sidewalks...

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Wormius

Saw a guy riding an actual scooter / moped on the Nose Creek pathway today. Not sure if he was lost or what. The Lime and Bird people seem to be utterly confused about where to go - zigzag across pedestrian and bike lanes around East Village- sure.

Ya, I saw a women a few months ago doing that. Not a fan.

[Mass_nerder]

Looks like Bird scooters are here now too

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by Mass_nerder

Looks like Bird scooters are here now too

Yup, Birds showed up this afternoon in the core.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by Nufy

SO much for the sidewalk rule...

I just walked from TC Tower to 10 Avenue and back and the only place I saw the scooters were on the sidewalks...

That’s where they are supposed to be???

[chemgear]

Not surprising.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...ries-1.5227244

Dozens of Calgarians have been injured riding shared electric scooters since they became available two weeks ago in the city.

Calgary emergency rooms have seen 60 patients with e-scooter-related injuries so far.

About a third of them were fractures and roughly 10 per cent were injuries to the face and head.

"We have to look at whether this is a really dangerous trend or not and how it compares to what's already been previously reported," said Dr. Eddy Lang, who works in emergency rooms in Calgary and is leading the study.

CBC medical columnist Dr. Raj Bhardwaj said he, too, has witnessed such injuries while working in urgent care.

Users can ride only on sidewalks, pathways and in bike lanes. It is illegal to ride these single-user devices on city roads.

City bylaws state e-scooter riders can be fined $25 for riding on the street, $75 for riding on sidewalks where signs indicate they are prohibited and $150 for interfering with a pedestrian.

Both shared e-scooter and e-bike riders must also park their vehicles out of the pedestrian path.

[81MC]

$25 fine for riding on the steet? Yep, that'll deter people.
Maybe it's because I'm apparently a grumpy sob, but I'm already sick of seeing drunken adults pile onto these things like it's the most excitement they've ever had in their boring ass lives. If one of these clowns runs into your vehicle, who do you go after to recover your deductible?

[Bunk]

The novelty will wear off, then it'll just be repeat users and tourists mostly to use it for transportation. There'll surely be less crashes too once people are used to it. I used it a fair amount in Hamburg and Berlin to explore - they do a nice job of filling that gap in being faster than walking, more nimble than bikes, and more direct than transit for say 1-2km trips. Great for exploring new places.

[bettercallbettman]

Originally Posted by 81MC

$25 fine for riding on the steet? Yep, that'll deter people.
Maybe it's because I'm apparently a grumpy sob, but I'm already sick of seeing drunken adults pile onto these things like it's the most excitement they've ever had in their boring ass lives. If one of these clowns runs into your vehicle, who do you go after to recover your deductible?

Boring ass lives and clowns. LOL.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Originally Posted by Mass_nerder

Looks like Bird scooters are here now too

Aren't the Bird scooters the ####tier, cheaper ones that people in the States complain about because they become a pile of garbage on a street corner when everyone just tosses them everywhere? That's no good.

[Weitz]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

Aren't the Bird scooters the ####tier, cheaper ones that people in the States complain about because they become a pile of garbage on a street corner when everyone just tosses them everywhere? That's no good.

Birds were just as good as the others in Phoenix.

[Weitz]

I guess bird is $0.35/min with no unlock fee. Better than lime if it’s a less than 20 min ride.