Scooter accidents rise with gas prices, temperatures

The Dispatch
Scooter accidents rise with gas prices, temperatures
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
BY NICQUEL TERRY
They’re popular, gas-friendly and stylish. But doctors say the increasing number on the road is likely to mean more people coming into emergency rooms.
They’re motorized scooters.
Health officials say numbers on individual scooter accidents often aren’t tracked, but Mount Carmel West physician Jeffrey [...]

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Scooter parking downtown, today at 10 AM

Update!! From the Mayor’s office, care of Walker:
“The properties controlled by ODOT and CDDC (670 Cap and Rich/High corner) are still being negotiated. The City does not control the properties but is advocating for parking as a use on those spots.
We’ll start striping and signing Gay Street spots today, and the rest will come on [...]

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Is a scooter the answer?

MSNMoney.com:
Is a scooter the answer?
By Tracy Harger
I am an accountant. Before I bought a scooter, I created a spreadsheet.
I’d rented scooters on trips to Europe and the South Pacific and loved them. Back home, rising fuel prices were just the excuse I needed to crunch some numbers.
A scooter can get 80 miles or more to [...]

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good Dispatch write-up on scooters

I thought that Kevin Joy did a good job with his article on scooters.  You can find more of my thoughts on my scooter site.  But the article explains that with gas prices going up, scooter sales have shot up.  The article also includes quotes from various users (not all of them live in the [...]

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Eco-friendly concrete arrives at OSU

Groundbreaking concrete paves way for parking lots
Rachel Lichtenfeld
Issue date: 11/8/07 Section: Campus
While many riders use the new motorcycle parking lot outside Caldwell Laboratory, which was installed in August, few realize the significance of the lot: It is made of eco-friendly pervious concrete and is the first project of its kind at Ohio State.
Pervious concrete leaks [...]

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Scooter Parking Restrictions - Columbus Alive

Park Restrictions
By John Ross
October 18th, 2007Jamey Fauque no longer parks his scooter at this Arena District bike rack.
Up until a few weeks ago, Jamey Fauque would ride his scooter from his home in Grandview to his job Downtown, parking at a bike rack behind the Frog Bear & Wild Boar Bar in the Arena District.
It [...]

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Motorcycle/Scooter Parking Cont’d…

Walker beat me to the punch in talking about Columbus’ need for dedicated motorcycle and scooter parking. Having just gotten back from San Francisco and getting to see an amazingly successful system firsthand, I figured that I’d just add a few pictures of what a functional system looks like.

You see these scattered all throughout [...]

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Columbus needs dedicated motorcycle and scooter parking

Yeah, I’ve thought about buying a scooter. I know the Ohio weather would only allow me to ride it for a portion of the year. And I don’t think they really make baby seats for them. But really, the main reason I haven’t gotten one yet is that I don’t really have much of a [...]

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Scoot-A-Que

Local scooter enthusiast blog, Scooter Fan, has a running countdown to Scoot-A-Que 2007 going on. The event is going on all weekend, but the highlight has to be on Saturday where the event will intertwine with the North Market Microbrew Festival. Scooters and beer (in that order)! How could that not be [...]

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