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Smiling JOe

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SoWalton is getting a scooter and electric car rental company on 30-A starting in March. :bang: You better look out even more so for the crazy drivers.
 

Kurt

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Smiling JOe said:
SoWalton is getting a scooter and electric car rental company on 30-A starting in March. :bang: You better look out even more so for the crazy drivers.

I've already seen plenty of scooters around.
 

Smiling JOe

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kurt said:
I've already seen plenty of scooters around.
I don't mind the scooters, in fact I would love to have one. What I dislike is the that many people who rent them, have no idea how to operate one -- not too different from people who ride their bicycles through the crosswalks not stopping for oncoming traffic. That scares me greatly.
 

Mermaid

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Where exactly do you drive the scooters? Do they go in the road, on the side of the road, or on the bike path? :dunno:
 

Smiling JOe

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Mermaid said:
Where exactly do you drive the scooters? Do they go in the road, on the side of the road, or on the bike path? :dunno:
The road. Motorized vehicles are not allowed on the bike path. Yes, they will help to slow the traffic on 30A.
 

Mermaid

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No harm in slowing the traffic on 30-A. I'm glad the scooters don't go on the bike path. That's crowded enough already with pedestrians, strollers, dawdling kids and bicycles.
 

Camp Creek Kid

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I guarantee that we'll have problems with people riding scooters on the bike trail. I often see people doing that. A few years ago I saw a group of 6-7 scooters with 2 adult riding each cruising down the trail near Gulf Trace. They of course took up the entire trail. Imagine if they had run into a runner as they went around a bend. Scary.
 

aquaticbiology

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every time they pass each other on the scooters - they start flicking that little horn button (beeep beeep beeep beeep beep beeeeeeeep), and this just gets them out of the house for causing more trouble elsewhere

what to do about it? hmmm...well, you could go the sabotage route with a set of spike strips complete with oj hat and gloves, or you could rent them all a cheaper scooter with a brick in the gas tank so it only goes about 50 feet, or you could realise that nothing in florida is sacred anymore and the large condo/hotel structures are just around the bend, or you could just move to somewhere desolate (that will probably go the same way in a year or two)

I do hate to rub it in :evil:, but I'll be thinking of you out here in the exclusive, quiet, beautiful, sticks! Where the biggest problem is deciding what day of the month to make the 42 mile round trip to fill up the truck, buy groceries, go to the pharmacy and hit the wal-mart - and that's the beauty of it, there just *isn't* *anything* closer! :D
 

SHELLY

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Camp Creek Kid said:
I guarantee that we'll have problems with people riding scooters on the bike trail. I often see people doing that. A few years ago I saw a group of 6-7 scooters with 2 adult riding each cruising down the trail near Gulf Trace. They of course took up the entire trail. Imagine if they had run into a runner as they went around a bend. Scary.

Just add it to our list:

(1) Dune Police
(2) Beach tent, chair and gee-gaw Police
(3) Bike Path Scooter Police

The times they are a-changin'
 
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