{"id":42588,"date":"2025-10-21T09:18:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T13:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=42588"},"modified":"2025-10-21T09:18:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T13:18:02","slug":"letter-time-to-ban-electric-scooters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=42588","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Time to ban electric scooters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To The Editor,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-20936\" src=\"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Letters1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"140\" \/>If the Legislature does not ban electric scooters from Pennsylvania\u2019s roads many children will be maimed and killed.<\/p>\n<p>Misinformed politicians and bureaucrats think that electric scooters are a viable means of transportation. \u00a0Nothing could be further from the truth. \u00a0There are no \u201crules of the road\u201d for scooters, and no infrastructure for them.<\/p>\n<p>Electric scooters are toys, and, at best, belong in parks. They should be banned from the roads. Yet, Senator Kearney thinks a new law will protect the children. I\u2019m sure he has good intentions, but good intentions will not save children\u2019s lives. <a href=\"https:\/\/pasenate.com\/sen-tim-kearney-officially-introduces-abbys-law-to-improve-e-scooter-safety\/\">https:\/\/pasenate.com\/sen-tim-kearney-officially-introduces-abbys-law-to-improve-e-scooter-safety\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->When (not if) a motor vehicle has an accident with an electric scooter that injures or kills a child, the vehicle operator will be found to be at fault, no matter the facts of the accident. \u00a0Efforts will be made to punish drivers, not the parents who let their children irresponsibly use an electric scooter.<\/p>\n<p>When do children exercise good judgement? \u00a0They are not mature enough to take responsibility for their own safety. \u00a0They will put themselves in jeopardy as well as everyone else on the road.<\/p>\n<p>Ban electric scooters from Pennsylvania roads.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tom McCarey<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Berwyn<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To The Editor, If the Legislature does not ban electric scooters from Pennsylvania\u2019s roads many children will be maimed and killed. Misinformed politicians and bureaucrats think that electric scooters are a viable means of transportation. \u00a0Nothing could be further from the truth. \u00a0There are no \u201crules of the road\u201d for scooters, and no infrastructure for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[15545,4257],"class_list":["post-42588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-electric-scooters","tag-letters-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42589,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42588\/revisions\/42589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}