My 3-year-old has started yelling at e-bikers. I taught her well
The author shares their frustrations with e-bike and e-scooter users in their neighborhood, particularly highlighting incidents where these riders have endangered pedestrians. Despite their own enjoyment of riding an electric bicycle, they express concern over the lack of respect for road rules among some riders. The article also touches on broader issues of lawlessness in affluent areas of Washington, D.C., exacerbated by recent snowstorms.
- ▪The author has encountered reckless e-scooter users who have nearly run them over.
- ▪Complaints about e-scooter parking have led to some action from the rental company Lime.
- ▪The article discusses a general increase in lawlessness in affluent neighborhoods of D.C. after winter snowstorms.
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Earlier this year, I met my first archnemesis in my new neighborhood. She and I accompanied our daughters to school at around the same time every morning, but while I pushed my then-2-year-old in a stroller, she put her 6- or 7-year-old on the back of an electric scooter and zipped along the brick sidewalks at 15 miles per hour. More than once, she almost ran us over. After a particularly close encounter a few blocks from home, I’d had enough. I released my inner native New Yorker, disturbing the genteel Georgetown corner with a stream of profanity. She sped away unbothered and proceeded to park her scooter directly in the middle of our driveway. Recommended Stories Men still don’t belong in women’s sports School choice is winning.
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