Police were stopping e-scooters and cyclists on the Old Kent Road after complaints about e-scooters and cyclists riding dangerously through red lights, writes Jack Friend…
The transport arm of the Met ran the educational programme on Friday morning (June 10). Along with e-scooter collisions doubling in London throughout 2021, the complaints from the Old Kent Road will likely not ease people’s concerns about e-scooters.
There has been debate about the dangers e-scooters pose to people who are blind or impartially sighted. As previously reported by the News, the Royal National Institute of Blind People said: “E-scooters are fast-moving, operate quietly, making them difficult to detect, and are often ridden on pavements despite rules prohibiting this. Because of this, they pose particular risks for blind and partially sighted pedestrians.”
Cyclists and scooterists should take a test and have a license and insurance like car drivers. They seem to think highway rules don’t apply to them. And keep them off the footpath, they are dangerous ???