TKC EXCLUSIVE!!! KANSAS CITY WILL MANDATE HELMET REQUIREMENT FOR ELECTRIC RENTAL SCOOTERS AND OTHER CRACKDOWN MEASURES TO MAKE HIPSTER TOY TRANSIT TREND LESS FUN!!!
This week Council members Jolie Justus and Dan Fowler drafted a quickly adopted resolution to start regulating "Dockless Shared Active Transportation" in response to local scooter hype.
Accordingly, City Hall insiders tell TKC . . .
HELMET REQUIREMENTS FOR E-SCOOTERS ARE THE BIGGEST PRIORITY FOR CITY HALL IN ORDER TO CRACKDOWN ON MISCREANTS AND PREVENT LIABILITY!!!
Never mind that Kansas City has a vibrant tech/craft scene filled with people who want to steal one of the scooters and chop it for fun & profit.
Bird, Lime and Spin scooters are the latest speculative tech trend venture that has met with bull market irrational exuberance from investors but seem unfit for the rugged terrain of KCMO streets -- Home to not only thousands upon thousands of pothole problems but also rife meanie local drivers who don't have much respect for any alt. transit on the wrong side of an SUV.
Sadly, most of the local media is buying the hype in support of this hipster tech but the reality is that KCMO regulation is inevitable and will once again confirm that this cowtown isn't as "tech friendly" as so many elected officials claim.
Check the links:
CNET: The mad, twisted tale of the electric scooter craze
Atlantic: Electric Scooter Charger Culture Is Out of Control
Biz Insider: People are vandalizing the scooters taking over San Francisco with everything from stickers to poop
Inc: This $118 Million Electric Scooter Company Created a Phenomenon in Los Angeles and Now Wants to Take Over the World
Broke Stuart: These E-Scooters Need to Be Stopped, And We Know How to Do it
Developing . . .
I don't know, poop scooters sound kind of artsy!
ReplyDeleteIt's almost inevitable that, sooner or later, a scooter rider will be hit by the street car.
ReplyDeleteThe resulting cat-fight over who to demonize will be rich indeed.
The hipsters are already brain dead so who cares
ReplyDeleteThe city will have a fun time enforcing the helmet rule.
ReplyDeleteHey, if you can use it to run geezers off the sidewalk, it sounds like fun!
ReplyDelete^^Sign me up!
ReplyDeleteWe do not need a stupid helmet law. We are all adults, make your own choices. Besides the police have alot better things to do.
ReplyDeleteHelmets required for scooters but not for bikes? Crazy stupid double standard.
ReplyDelete12:21pm is right.
ReplyDeletePeople now have all rights and no responsibilities!
They can do and say anything they want and treat other people as inconsiderately and obnoxiously as they like.
And if anyone bashes their heads on the sidewalks after running into something because they were scootering and texting at the same time, it will be someone else's fault, probably in this case, the city's and they'll sue.
Be sure to take scooters to the anti-Trump rally. It will be a good chance to test out the theories.
Helmets for these little e scooters? Are you kidding me? How pathetic! It’s going to be hard to watch driving down main and seeing some hipster with a helmet riding this thing trying to take selfies at the same time showing how cool he is riding a gay scooter in kc.
ReplyDelete^^Yep, right before he knocks your geriatric ass out! That's gonna be fun to watch
ReplyDelete1:33 I am in my prime. You have nothing on me I guarantee it.
Delete^^^^^ How will you know?
ReplyDeleteYou haven't been able to waddle your lard butt up the stairs out of Mommy's Basement for eight years!
Wonder how much of our tax money "Bike/Walk KC" kicked back to Jolie and Dan in exchange for this horseshit?
ReplyDeleteYou can damn well bet that neither of them lifted a finger (except the middle one) unless they got a bribe out of it.
^^All of it. They took all of it. Happy now? Now go watch Matlock and quick asking such stupid questions.
ReplyDeleteOOOOh, 3:23 sounds scary! Internet tough guy!
ReplyDeleteWay to win Loser of the Week you fucking turd.
let 'er rip unregulated and see what happens.
ReplyDeleteSammy HAGAR would be Impressed .I CAN'T DRIVE 55.
ReplyDelete3:27 has a hot date tonight with tommy to play tummy sticks.
ReplyDeleteAnyone who rides a scooter might as well start sucking dicks. If you’re a hipster you already have been sucking dick for years anyway.
ReplyDeleteScrew these scooters!
ReplyDeleteWe need convicts chained to rickshaws in this city.
What a great tourist attraction and an added bonus of
teaching lowlifes how to work.
I love how this company never even asked permission to park them all over. Just blew into town and forced it on us. When someone cracks their head open or causes an accident, who pays ? It better not be the city. And I'm sure the city council will pussyfoot around the subject for the next six months when they could be "working" on other things like that airport that's ever-expanding.
ReplyDeleteJust more KCMOmentum, baby! I’d like to see Go4KC in his Chiefs tutu being chased by bow tie sLIE on one of these dorky things. Shameless.
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