You've got it slightly wrong. Motorized light use vehicles are not supposed to be on bike racks not because they take up space, but because they're registered motor vehicles driving on a sidewalk, which is illegal.<div>
<br></div><div>In my locale, the local police told me to park on bike racks with my two wheeled 125cc yamaha scooter. It's a little problematic, however, because it's technically registered as a motorcycle, but light enough to carry away if it isn't locked down. When I travel into Boston, I'll use street parking as much as possible, but some neighborhoods that isn't possible.</div>
<div><br></div><div>It really depends on the motor scooter. 50cc models are not motorcycles, and 100/125/150cc scooters are either "motor scooters" or "motorcycles," depending on the state that it was manufactured in and what the factory calls it on the title. Of course, this causes problems because motor scooters are allowed to sidewalk park, but motorcycles aren't, and the rules aren't clear about what's allowed and not.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Boston, and surrounding communities, need to repaint more parking spaces into motorcycle/scooter/freight bicycle parking. Really, until there's a clear distinction made between the two classes, all types of scooter-bodies vehicles will keep ending up on bike racks and cause lots of confusion.</div>
<div><br></div><div>--------------------<br><div>Angela Morley</div><div><div>Founder & CEO, ionFyre Technologies</div></div><div>Computer Specialist, Salem State University Information Technology Services</div><div>General Manager, WMWM Salem</div>
<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:49 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thom3@aol.com">thom3@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<font color="black" size="2" face="arial">
<div> <font size="2"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">My understanding is that scooters et al may a) park on the street or b) on the sidewalk as long as they don't impede pedestrian and handicap access. (this varies from town to town). The reasons vespas and scooters are not allowed to chain up at bike racks is because one scooter takes up a space that could accommodate 2 or more bikes and bikes really can't do a or b without a designated post.<br>
<br>
the idea I like the best is sort of what they did at the Otherside, take away car parking. It would work for scooters and vespas as well, you'd just have to segregate the two. Racks in the spot for bikes, street painted lines for scooters (and motorcycles?). For one car you could probably get at least dozen bikes and about 5 plus scooters (et al). </font></font><br>
</div><div class="im">
<div> <br>
</div>
<div style="clear:both"></div>
<div> <br>
</div>
<div> <br>
</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:10pt;color:black">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Silivrenion <<a href="mailto:silivrenion@gmail.com" target="_blank">silivrenion@gmail.com</a>><br>
To: Boston Critical Mass <<a href="mailto:list@bostoncriticalmass.org" target="_blank">list@bostoncriticalmass.org</a>><br>
Sent: Tue, Aug 10, 2010 1:27 pm<br>
Subject: Re: [*BCM*] Electro Bike....Re: Battered Biker Syndrome<br>
<br>
<div>
<div>The obvious solution is more vespa and motorcycle type parking.</div>
<div>- Angela Morley<br>
Sent from my mobile device. Spelling errors unintentional.</div>
<div></div>
<blockquote type="cite">On Aug 10, 2010 11:44 AM, <<a href="mailto:thom3@aol.com" target="_blank">thom3@aol.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
<font color="black" face="arial" size="2">
<div> <font size="2"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I would report the bike rack use to the appropriate agencies in the relative city. The really great rack bay across from Charlie's in Harvard SQ is constantly occupied by scooters and motorcycles. We need more facilities like this especially as meters in that area are going away (you buy a ticket at a kiosk dispenser and leave it in your window now). </font></font><br>
</div>
<div> <br>
</div>
<div style="clear:both"></div>
<div> <br>
</div>
<div> <br>
</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:10pt;color:black">
<div><font color="#500050">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Peter <<a href="mailto:gh3451@yahoo.com" target="_blank">gh3451@yahoo.com</a>><br>
To: Boston Critical Mass <list@bostoncriti...</font></div>
<div><font color="#500050">Sent: Tue, Aug 10, 2010 11:13 am<br>
Subject: Re: [*BCM*] Electro Bike....Re: Battered Biker Syndrome<br>
<br>
F...</font></div>
</div>
</font>
<br>
_______________________________________________<br>
Boston Critical Mass mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:list@bostoncriticalmass.org" target="_blank">list@bostoncriticalmass.org</a><br>
<a href="http://bostoncriticalmass.org/list" target="_blank">http://bostoncriticalmass.org/list</a><br>
To unsubscribe email <a href="mailto:list-unsubscribe@bostoncriticalmass.org" target="_blank">list-unsubscribe@bostoncriticalmass.org</a><br>
</blockquote>
<div></div>
</div>
<div style="margin:0px;font-family:Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:12px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<pre style="font-size:9pt"><tt>_______________________________________________<br>
Boston Critical Mass mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:list@bostoncriticalmass.org" target="_blank">list@bostoncriticalmass.org</a><br>
<a href="http://bostoncriticalmass.org/list" target="_blank">http://bostoncriticalmass.org/list</a><br>
To unsubscribe email <a href="mailto:list-unsubscribe@bostoncriticalmass.org" target="_blank">list-unsubscribe@bostoncriticalmass.org</a><br>
</tt></pre>
</div>
</div>
</div></font>
<br>_______________________________________________<br>
Boston Critical Mass mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:list@bostoncriticalmass.org">list@bostoncriticalmass.org</a><br>
<a href="http://bostoncriticalmass.org/list" target="_blank">http://bostoncriticalmass.org/list</a><br>
To unsubscribe email <a href="mailto:list-unsubscribe@bostoncriticalmass.org">list-unsubscribe@bostoncriticalmass.org</a><br></blockquote></div><br></div>