Just to add to the problems of being blind, negotiating overgrown hedges and cars parked on the footpath the latest torment is officially sponsored electric scooters?
Some makers are thoughtfully fitting noisemakers such as revving motor cycle sounds? Obviously designed so that they can be switched off at will?
Frightening and insane is that IMHO this lunacy is supported by a university, a lord mayor and councillors as it will hopefully create jobs and help the environment?
Not quite the same but last week I was undertaken in slow traffic by an illegal one that jumped two sets of red lights to mount the pavement to clear off out of sight?
An illustration of modern caring society, maybe? ? ?