E-Scooters: I've seen it all now

Thank you, it is always a pleasure to help you out. Enjoy your evening🙂

In MK we have around 200 miles of shared cycle/walk ways and more being added all the time. One advantage of 80% of the town being built in the past 50 years. Seems to work OK, probably because people are used to them. There can we annoyances like family groups spreading right across the path and I share JVB's wish that people on bikes would ping their bells to warn of their approach.  

The trouble is that many cycle paths are not fit for purpose. A few gallons of Dulux do not make a viable cycle path but merely satisfy a council's conscience.

+1, when I drive into Hull city centre the Council have been busy with the markings for cycle ways they have reduced the road so oddly in places it actually has trucks unable to stay within the road parameters without encroaching on the cycle ways, which backs up your ‘not fit for purpose’🤷🏻‍♂️

This discussion has got quite hated at times and we have had to moderate posts. Please can I ask that the discussion is kept constructive and free from arguments, otherwise we will need to remove. Many thanks. 

Spreading out across a path is so annoying be in on foot trying to get by or on a bike. 

We always ding our bell but you can get some really nasty comments from folk when you do, not everyone appreciates a warning. 

What annoys me is when there is a divided path, cyclists one side padestrians the other and folk migrate across. Now with these eScooters it's even worse, they zip in and out of folk crossing back and forth at some speed. 

Yes, and some council's are seriously better than others, Newcastle, North and South Tyneside are all excellent with wide tarmac paths (many were old railway lines) and designated combined cycle and  footpaths while Sunderland is OK at best near the beach to very poor in other places and only fit for mountain bikes.

There is no 'commuter' cycle route into Sunderland from the west. There is the national C2C cycle route but after rain it's very muddy in places and too winding (though very interesting) for a quick route in.

In fact it's the one and only thing I've ever written to the council about!

That sign says shared path not footpath, so I would say it is not just a footpath.

No, it’s for sharing👍🏻😊

That is why it is not just a footpath