10-16-2016, 07:38 PM
For the record, I do not have a speedometer on my bicycle.
Having a quantifiable threshold, like a speed limit, is much easier to enforce then something more qualitative ("courteous behaviour"), so I can see why that would be a proxy. Ideally you wouldn't be enforcing it on an empty trail when you could be going top speed, you would only be enforcing it in more congested conditions.
That said, I have had some very dangerous interactions with e-scooters on the spur line/laurel trail by Erb Street over the past month. I currently feel there should be some enforcement of signaling directions and passing for all wheeled vehicles in order to retain trail users.
Having a quantifiable threshold, like a speed limit, is much easier to enforce then something more qualitative ("courteous behaviour"), so I can see why that would be a proxy. Ideally you wouldn't be enforcing it on an empty trail when you could be going top speed, you would only be enforcing it in more congested conditions.
That said, I have had some very dangerous interactions with e-scooters on the spur line/laurel trail by Erb Street over the past month. I currently feel there should be some enforcement of signaling directions and passing for all wheeled vehicles in order to retain trail users.