Don't pick on scooters
Re the "scooter menace" and Helena Camwell's letter of January 31. When an electric scooter is purchased, the manual tells the user not to ride in the road, only for crossing.
I have been riding one for 16 years, but find at times I have been forced to ride on the road for short distances owing to the stupid, ignorant motorists who illegally park their cars and lorries on the footpath, knowing they face a fixed penalty fine.
But they just don't care, and neither do delivery vehicles who park at the front of shops to unload instead of using the back entrances. This causes chaos and scooter uses cannot safely cross the road.
Think yourself lucky, madam, that you can get about. We can't, we have to be taken on any long distance journeys.
Scooters can only travel so far on one charge. The average is 8-10 miles and that takes an hour.
If you want to see a menace, come to Roseville in Coseley where lots and lots of scooters are used daily. The riders have a job to get up the kerbs, never mind riding in the road, but nobody wants to know because they've never ridden one.
The motorists think that blinkers are just for show and that double yellow lines are to make the road look pretty, and the free car parks and are just a little bit too far for them to go round the corner.
It us scooter riders who are in danger, not you, so leave us alone. We don't give off fumes and it is our only form of mobility and independence.
Gwen Cope, Vicarage Road, Coseley.
