[wpietri]

Yeah, I can see that for sure. This week I came about two inches from serious injury. Some yutz was riding one of the new powered rental scooters downhill on a narrow sidewalk. He was easily doing 25kph. I was talking with a friend as we waited outside a restaurant; he brushed past me just as I was stepping back. If I had done it a second earlier, I would have been right in his path with nowhere for him to go.

Bike lanes could be a better place for them. But a lot of the riders I see are tourists or scooter novices. A busy urban bike lane is not the right place to learn a new mode of transport.