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Hoboken’s E-Scooter Program In Chaos After Just 3 Days, Riders Breaking Traffic Laws
CBS News New York ^ | 5/23/19 | Staff

Posted on 05/25/2019 7:04:00 PM PDT by Rebelbase

Full Title: Hoboken’s E-Scooter Program In Chaos After Just 3 Days, Streets Filled With Riders Breaking Traffic Laws

HOBOKEN, N.J. (CBSNewYork) – Three days in and it’s already a disaster in the eyes of many New Jersey residents.

Hoboken’s e-scooter rental program kicked off on Monday after the state legalized the use of the electric vehicles.

Although they’re popular and eco-friendly, the e-scooters aren’t getting a friendly welcome from everyone forced to dodge users not following any traffic laws.

Hoboken residents told CBS2 riders are breaking traffic rules and making the roads even more dangerous.

CBS2 cameras caught people riding on the sidewalk, running red lights, and going the wrong way down one-way streets since the program started less than a week ago.

It was such a concern already, police have put out warning signs, warning the two-wheeled terrors to obey the laws.

(Excerpt) Read more at newyork.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Travel
KEYWORDS: electricscooters; hoboken; newjersey; scofflaws
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To: Rebelbase

Baltimore already demonstrated the stupidity of this with bicycles...libtards are so retarded and gay


21 posted on 05/25/2019 9:28:29 PM PDT by northislander
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To: Rebelbase

The problem with these is that they are motorized, which means they are to be used on the streets, as in the photo. But a scooter against a car is pretty intimidating, and so the scooter drivers go onto the sidewalks where they feel safer. Unfortunately, they are much faster than the pedestrians, and come out of nowhere, so they are a threat to people walking.


22 posted on 05/25/2019 9:49:20 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer (A is)
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To: Rebelbase

There will never be a crackdown on these things. The car haters who run cities love em. They think they will take cars off the road. Never mind the preliminary evidence that what they take off the road is - bikes.


23 posted on 05/25/2019 10:48:18 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Rebelbase

South Park last year had a Halloween episode on the scooters.


24 posted on 05/26/2019 1:57:59 AM PDT by SMGFan ("God love ya! What am I talking about")
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To: Rebelbase

I traveled on Washington St by bus on Thursday. There were 5 or 6 scooters near the curb on what seemed like every street. the scooter riders were not wearing helmets.


25 posted on 05/26/2019 2:03:58 AM PDT by SMGFan ("God love ya! What am I talking about")
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To: SMGFan

Donor-scooters.


26 posted on 05/26/2019 3:19:49 AM PDT by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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To: 867V309

Gary Indiana is the right armpit and Hoboken the left...


27 posted on 05/26/2019 3:40:46 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: teeman8r

Or one can be the armpit and the other the anus.


28 posted on 05/26/2019 5:09:19 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys all aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: colorado tanker

There will be a crackdown if pols ever realize what a cash cow ticketing these idiots could be.

I’m amazed they haven’t already.


29 posted on 05/26/2019 5:12:38 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: Vigilanteman

I think San Francisco is the anus of the country


30 posted on 05/26/2019 5:30:36 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: teeman8r

Or possibly Oakland, with San Fransicko simply being the skin covering to the anus.


31 posted on 05/26/2019 5:42:32 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys all aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Vigilanteman

Tru dat


32 posted on 05/26/2019 5:46:47 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: Rebelbase

Recently BANNED in Summit Co. UT.


33 posted on 05/26/2019 7:43:18 AM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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To: Rebelbase

they just need to make it so cops get hit a button and remotely lock up the front brake when they violate a traffic law. That’ll stop em


34 posted on 05/26/2019 9:22:47 AM PDT by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: Chickensoup

Great low-brow poetry.
Thanks for posting that!


35 posted on 05/26/2019 10:55:52 AM PDT by spankalib
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To: spankalib

Just a bit of fun!


36 posted on 05/26/2019 12:17:34 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: NonValueAdded

Armpit? Rents there are among the highest in the NYC metro area. I’d never live there (I’m a few miles west) because I could never live in a city, but Hoboken NJ is a very concentrated area of wealth.

Decades ago it was a total dump; NYC’s collapse put it back on the map.


37 posted on 05/26/2019 5:15:32 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: NonValueAdded

Lotsa wall street wealth in Hoboken.


38 posted on 05/26/2019 5:23:42 PM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: NonValueAdded

"...Hoboken...the armpit of the nation..."


Not really...what with multi-million $$$ condos in that area of the country and all.

39 posted on 05/29/2019 3:24:18 PM PDT by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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