Mobility scooters need regulation

“Well speed could be regulated in some way;maybe a governor of some sort on the power supply. It would be good to get this sorted because I'd like to see Disney style 'trains' running in the bus lanes and the pedestrianised areas, to deliver shoppers from one end of town to the other. In the summer they could go to the Barbican as well. Lets get Plymouthians out and about in their own city. The 'train' would have to be funded by a small fare.”

“"Car and motorbike riders would lose their licences."

If only that was true.

In the city where I live pavement parking is an epidemic. The cars have to be driven onto pavements to park there and they cause damage to the pavement surfaces, damage to the kerbs, danger to pedestrians by creating dips in the pavements that fill with oily water after rain, not to mention a serious obstruction to blind people and people pushing buggies and wheelchairs.

The police in my area do nothing about this. It's a police responsibility not the council's. Maybe if the councils were allowed to deal as they do with street parking in many areas the menace would be stopped because councils, unlike the police, keep the money the 'fines' generate.”

“I fully agree that as usual in life you have a few who make the majority suffer. As a user of one of these, which without I would be house bound, I do sympathies with pedestrians. I have seen them on the road thinking they have the divine right to be there, (no you don`t). To me at the end of the day it comes down to respect. You respect others, and they will respect you, this I know works. I always give right of way to pedestrians, after all I was one at one time. I am always in the company of my lovely wife, I go at her speed, so please do not blame everyone for being disrespectful and have no regard for pedestrians.”

“Never mind these scooter things. Ban umbrellas. I've nearly had my eyes poked out numerous times by women with these contraptions. Why don't they just put a carrier bag over their heads with peep holes? The world would be a far safer place.”

“I have never understood why the users don't undergo a medical test to see if they can drive. I know someone who is sight impaired; as am I. I said I wouldn't feel safe with them riding around. It's dangerous enough at times just walking around. He then said that it's unfair that he'll have to stay in all day. I never said that. But why should my safety and the safety of others be put at risk?”