You have to get people to stay on them on the first place, and follow a reasonable speed limit because one accident shuts down the whole system
I’ve been in single file scooter lanes and still had people get right up behind me and squeeze me over so they can pass. If anything, it is more dangerous
But the kinds of accident in this type of single file will not involve 4 wheel vehicles, hence very manageable and frankly, not lethal. I’d build the lane 5 feet wide, not wide enough for the scooter behind to overtake. If backed up, Google Maps will tell them to reroute. No big deal.
Never. Motorcycles can go on regular vehicle lanes, I’m fine with that.
Visualize a bicycle lane with posts and bollards separating it from the car lane. 5 feet wide to me seems just right. The concept is very simply, just make it applicable to scooters too. I’m not reinventing the wheel.
So where will cars park or stop, if they cant access the legal spaces or the red lines or double park? Will drivers have to walk across the dedicated scooter lane to pick up their tea or drop off their kids?
Can start in any city X that is willing to live a dignified life and not look 3rd-world-ish. Any ambitious politician can do it to make a name for himself. Once they solve the scooter problem, they simultaneously will have already solved the pedestrian/sidewalk problem easily, EASILY!
Whatever other solutions you have in your head that are not the same as mine, I already thought of and they will fail. You just have to trust me, the problem is a physical problem - the mobility of the scooters on the one hand, vs the degree or amount of freedom you’re allowing. Entropy , do you understand? (I don’t want to make physicists cringe but conceptually I’d use that word to describe)
Your idea really won’t “solve” the scooter problem. People who want to go faster than a grandma will drive on the sidewalk or in car lanes, leading to more of the same problems.
Um no. Those people that you describe will become the exceptions rather than the norm. With my proposal, law enforcement can focus on the exceptions. The majority will be peer-pressured to be confined by physical barrier of the 1-lane-1-file. I am Taiwanese and I know very well the group behaviour. Establish the norm and the rest will follow. Tip over the scale. Cross the 50% threshold. Get it?
These people are the exception (but not by much) in the current lane design. It will definitely become the norm if somebody tries to implement this ridiculously idiotic idea.
The only special lane you need is for the bus, making everyone jam except for buses, double or triple the number of buses, make roads single way too. Make public transport to actually no sucks.