Beacon Hill Hates Scooters

[shmodge.livejournal.com]

I didn't see a link to this yet but I figured people might care a bit about it. The days of free riding scootering my be over.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/07/21/scooter_law_revving_up_worry/?page=1

Comments

Re: Failure on my part

[srakkt.livejournal.com]

That seems like a possible explanation. I'm also willing to chalk this one up to ignorance more than anything else. Laws generally do not keep up with technology adoption. In this case we're seeing a lot of scooters on the roads which aren't legally mopeds but intuitively to a lot of people "feel" as though perhaps they ought to be, but certainly aren't motorcycles either, and so dealers can legally and legitimately say "Well, it's not a motorcycle" but then erroneously reach the conclusion that "it must be a moped."