Shopping Carts are Worse than Scooters



[Worse than scooters.]
In just a one-mile walk down Snelling Avenue the other day, I found four different shopping carts on the sidewalk.

How are these different from scooters?

They both are owned and "operated" by private for-profit businesses.

They both serve a functional transportation purpose for people.

They both clutter the right-of-way.

The big difference is that the Bird scooter company comes and picks up their scooters every night. Meanwhile, Cub, Target, Walmart, and a dozen other negligent shopping cart suppliers just let these mechanical dockless for-profit devices onto the streets and hardly ever clean them up.

On the scale of "posing a menace to sidewalks", I'd rank scooters somewhere below shopping carts and "men working" construction signs, and just above plastic newspaper boxes and slightly-too-large sidewalk cafes.




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