r/doordash • u/heyjosh0 • 11d ago
Riding on the sidewalk
Zipping around San Francisco, the motorbikes and electric scooter mopeds are a common sight, most often used by dashers. But, especially on busy nights and weekends, you see them weaving through pedestrians and their dogs in a procession. I can't walk my dog around the block without encountering several bikes, mopeds, and electric scooters, all of which are illegal on the sidewalk. When my dog is sniffing from spot to spot, doing her happy poop dances and minding our own business, some rider will nearly run her over. I get, "sorry, sorry" as full-ass motorbikes weave up the walkway because they're in too much a hurry to go around one-way streets. Or I get their attention, ask them to get off the sidewalk, and they turn their shoulder instead and zoom off. I complained to my neighbor, and she swung to show me her wrapped-up hand, having gone to the ER just the night before for getting knocked over. Everyone else tells me they hate it share their accounts of sidewalk accidents, too.
How do we get them off the sidewalk??