How To Ban Segway Scooters From Sidewalks in Your Area

Now that San Francisco has shown that Segway scooters can be banned from the sidewalks, it is time for other cities to protect pedestrians.

• Create coalition of interested groups. Especially concentrate on seniors, the disability community, and pedestrians advocates. A coalition is vital for legislation to succeed.
• Create list of why Segway scooters would be a problem. See the Walk San Francisco list for a good start.
• Find a local politician to champion your cause
• Work with the local politician to draft legislation. See the San Francisco legislation for an example.
• Contact local Department of Public Health, and traffic engineers, and other city workers and officials in order to get support
• Publicly state that you want to work with Segway to make streets safer for all users, including Segway riders. Segway will look bad by refusing to try to help. After all, they are only interested in selling their product.
• Send out press releases. The press loves stories about how silly Segway scooters are.
• Work with politician to get support of other politicians

Segway will counter by giving demonstrations of their fun scooter to all the politicians. This is not a problem because you are not anti-Segway. Sure Segways are fun to ride. The problem is if people would use them on the sidewalk. Politicians understand this. After all, bicycles are also fun to ride, but they too don't belong on the sidewalks. It also helps to remind politicians that you will be voting in the next election, long after the Segway lobbyists have left.