Comment by dehugger

Agree with this. I ride an electric scooter. I got off the sidewalk because I didn't want to make pedestrians uncomfortable. I did ~250 miles on mine in an urban environment, then recently I was hit by a car while in a non-protected bike lane.

For escooters the safety tier is: - protected bike lanes (safest) - side walk - sharing low-speed roads (think riding in the middle of the lane on a 15-20mph road) - unprotected bike lane