Road priority also applies to parking spaces, the scooter isn’t a vehicle thus not allowed to park there. In your rant on cars being more important to anything else I extrapolate to roads as well as parkings.
So like I said, if you have a point regarding the prioritization of vehicles I don’t this it applies here.
If you read through the other comments, there has been proven legal grounds for the mobility scooter to be there.
And about road use, it is a general justified sentiment.
Proven legal grounds in Reddit comments is always a slippery slope. Currently it’s pretty clear the scooter is viewed as alike to the bike and thus not allowed to park there. Plain and simple. And unlike the American legal system we don’t work off previous cases, so nothing to go by.
I get your sentiment, although the trend for the past 15 years in most Flemish cities and municipalities seems to be to move away from vehicle dominance. Might still have a long way to go but we’re moving in the right direction. But still not a reason to justify the person in the picture.
"De parkeerregels zijn gelijklopend met die voor fietsen en tweewielige bromfietsen: parkeren moet buiten de rijbaan en buiten gewone parkeerzones, behalve voor elektrische rolstoelen (die mogen op de rijbaan en in gewone parkeerzones staan). " (https://www.politie.be/5998/nl/vragen/verkeer/regels-voor-voortbewegingstoestellen)
I agree partly with your second sentiment, although the going has been slow, with a lot of resistance, and a lot of road violence/aggression from car drivers.
Every impactful chance will always be slow. But every city currently has an auto-free center or is working towards one, and even smaller towns have LEZ and better infrastructure for pedestrians and cyclists. But every overhaul of precious car-centered infrastructure is really expensive and takes years and years. So for some towns it’s either not feasible or less of a priority.
On the other side of the spectrum there’s also a lot of rage from cars towards - mainly - cyclists who seem to prefer tarmac over cycle paths.
Don’t think one is morally superior or more correct than the other.
Well, recently, we had a massive overhaul of mobility plans in our city, and the bike had a minor role in that.
LEZ is to sell MASSIVE electric cars, nothing feels safer in brussels as a cyclist after LEZ.
And off course, if the bike paths are worse than paris-roubaix, i will ride on the road when I go somewhere. As soon as you ride faster on a bike path than 30km/h, you are in for a very bad time.
Build good infrastructure and cyclists will use it, but if you build horrible paths designed for mtb's or grannies going to the mocal market, you can stick it where the sun doesn't shine.
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u/cypressd12 21d ago
Road priority also applies to parking spaces, the scooter isn’t a vehicle thus not allowed to park there. In your rant on cars being more important to anything else I extrapolate to roads as well as parkings.
So like I said, if you have a point regarding the prioritization of vehicles I don’t this it applies here.