This seems like another good reason to legalise the ownership and use of escooters.
They're a useful and cheap form of personal transport for children. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/18/e-scooters-blamed-for-big-jump-in-children-caught-in-uk-driving-without-insurance
They're a useful and cheap form of personal transport for children. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/18/e-scooters-blamed-for-big-jump-in-children-caught-in-uk-driving-without-insurance
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Escooters should be the same. It would boost teenagers independence a lot.
Should they be on the road though?
We need more segregated infrastructure.
We need better safe spaces for non car users everywhere, be that be traffic free paths or filtered streets with lower limits.
Whatever their age!
Busy roads need alternatives yes, but we can make streets a lot safer with filtering and speed limit reduction. That can really improve an active travel network
https://bsky.app/profile/wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk/post/3ligxf2edgs2x
Surely we should be encouraging and enabling independent travel, so they can get to social activities, sports and school without needing an adult to take them. Especially if public transport doesn't work for the journey.
I suspect if they were legal and we didn't have media stories every other day about seizures that the market would boom, and plenty would find them a convenient low cost alternative to a car
Plenty don't like having to co-exist with people on bikes now, and I suspect that many like that most uk roads are almost motorways with any mode but driving excluded cos danger
Absolutely ludicrous.
"from today e-scooters are counted as e-bikes with the same rights and responsibilities"
I just could not ride it home legally. But I could ride it around my garden (if it was big enough).
It is indeed utterly ludicrous.