Ride your lime scooters on the right side of the road!

I'm a cyclist, I don't own a car and really enjoy biking in this city generally. I feel like this shouldn't have to be said but on my morning bike commute yesterday I came across 3 separate people (two on lime scooters, one on a hoverboard) riding on a oneway bike lane or the shoulder of the road AGAINST the flow of traffic. One of them got very close to running into me. This is an unbelievably stupid thing to do for so many reasons but here are three.

1. Bike lanes and road shoulders are narrow, if someone Is going the right way and you are going the wrong way, they will have to either get onto the sidewalk (if they can), go into traffic and hope there isn't a car there at that moment, or run into you head on. If you run into someone head-on going say 20 miles per hour and they are also going that speed, odds are very good that you will die, especially if you are not wearing a helmet. 2. Cars are not expecting people on the road to be riding toward them. Your risk of being hit be someone who was simply not looking for you when making a right turn for instance, goes up significantly, and it would be 100 percent your fault if it happened. 3. If a car happens to be in a hurry and is stupid and tries to pass someone around the shoulder or unprotected bike lane (which happens frequently, unfortunately) , they are not thinking to check in front of them, and now instead of being side-swiped you run head-on into the car.

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I'm all for more people on bikes and scooters, biking is how I get everywhere in this city. Please for the love of god don't put others in danger by riding the wrong way on the road. I don't care if it saves you time, I don't care if it "feels" safer. It is not. Don't fucking do it.