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Scooters are litter?

Are parked cars litter? What about when a restaurants put a chair or table outside on the sidewalk?

Maybe a closer analogy is the other kind of electric scooter (as in the mopeds like Scoot). Never heard them called litter. So is being on the sidewalk vs the street what determines if it's litter?

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> Are parked cars litter?

If you leave them outside of a designated parking spot, sure.

> What about when a restaurants put a chair or table outside on the sidewalk?

That probably depends on who owns the sidewalk.

> If you leave them outside of a designated parking spot, sure.

What if designate about a third of the city's public space as scooter parking spots? Would that be ok?

To me all the cars that fill my city, standing around being useless 90% of the time, are nothing but litter.

> Are parked cars litter?

You assume an answer to this question that not everyone agrees with.

Imagine if a company like uber bought thousands of smart cars. Parked them on all the streets. And said there ya go, now you can rent me! Meanwhile people who normally parked on the streets couldn't because these short lease cars were there. I would say that's littering.

Have you ever visited a city with car2go or DriveNow?

I understand that those exist, and fill the same role. My point was with these scooters, and rent a bikes, they get dumped on a city seemingly over night and the volume is vastly different than car2go.

> Are parked cars litter?

As in: are they in the way? Yes.

As in: are they useless from pedestrians' point of view? Yes.

As in: would the person who put the car there mind if it was towed and tossed away? Likely yes.

Where I live, I can't see incoming traffic from all the cars that <strike>are parked on the sides of streets</strike> are blocking the street view and constricting capacity. I would be happy if every single one of them would be treated as trash.

Disclosure: we have a private driveway. I walk and cycle, I don't drive.