With escooter riders being fined upto $2.5k for riding an escooter on public NSW roads despite them being legal in most other states, it wasn't looking good for NSW escooter fans.
Now there's a 12 month trial starting in 4 locations which sounds like will all be parks ie will be novelty toys, however councils have been invited to participate and 39 councils have expressed interest. Video does waffle
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Postby mikesbytes » Mon Jul 25, 2022 8:00 pm
If the R-1 rule is broken, what happens to N+1?
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Re: escooters NSW
Postby mikesbytes » Tue Jul 26, 2022 5:34 pm
Privately owned e-scooters are banned during the 12 month trail due to safety concerns. So private scooters are more dangerous than rented scooters?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-18/ ... /101248678
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-18/ ... /101248678
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Re: escooters NSW
Postby jdh500 » Tue Jul 26, 2022 7:35 pm
Not really but the rider is, the government has a greater opportunity to track track down the scooter rider when they hit someone if its a rental while doing something stupid or stop it being modified to travel at much higher speed.
mikesbytes wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 5:34 pmPrivately owned e-scooters are banned during the 12 month trail due to safety concerns. So private scooters are more dangerous than rented scooters?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-18/ ... /101248678
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Re: escooters NSW
Postby zebee » Wed Jul 27, 2022 4:26 pm
Plus rentals may have 3rd party liability on them. I wonder how many private ones do? The recently posted thread about contents insurance shows some policies exclude e things.
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Re: escooters NSW
Postby mikesbytes » Wed Jul 27, 2022 5:54 pm
Doesn't seem to be a problem with private scooters in other states
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Re: escooters NSW
Postby Thoglette » Wed Jul 27, 2022 6:50 pm
But NSW is special!mikesbytes wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 5:54 pmDoesn't seem to be a problem with private scooters in other states
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