This is connected to the pandemic, and its not.
Throughout the pandemic we have been alerted of the need to reduce hospital usage, ICU usage. We've had COE involved in many actions to reduce dangers on roads and to pedestrians and also to limit serious injuries requiring hospital attention.
In this same time of restrictions, advisories, crackdowns etc, and a youth on a hockey rink getting tasered, we have had ZERO crackdown on these escooter f***ing things that occupy are every sidewalk DT or in Old Strathcona to Univ.
The City just STARTING to crackdown after YEARS of complaints.
Edmonton to crack down on illegal e-scooter sidewalk use with $100 fines | Edmonton Journal
Surgeons, medical professionals, dentists etc have been alerting officials of the dangers of these things to any jurisdiction that will listen. Countless studies have been done on how much injuries these incur, hospital beds used etc for serious injuries riding these things, or being hit as a pedestrain by these things.
Yet the COE has allowed these things to be used throughout the pandemic.
I've avoided DT and Whyte Avenue area more and more now as the sidewalks are no longer safe. First with escooters, then the pandemic, and currently both being epidemic.
Dental injuries on the rise thanks to e-scooter use: study by U of A prof | Globalnews.ca
Calgary e-scooter injuries: what emergency room doctors are seeing - Calgary | Globalnews.ca
Head and neck injuries make up nearly 28 percent of all electric scooter accident injuries: Study shows surge of emergency room visits since introduction of rideshare e-scooters -- ScienceDaily
So the same cities that reduce speed limits for drivers, claim to want to reduce pedestrian and all traffic injuries have been ALLOWING escooters on city sidewalks for years. Deplorable consistency and mind numbing oversight.