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This 1835 law is utterly sensible. Electric scooters on pedestrian paths ? No, just no. The only modes of transportation on pedestrian paths should be powered by your feet. We can allow powered wheelchairs for the disabled but that should be the upper limit. Why are pedestrians always the one to get the shaft in road 'innovation' ?

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You have an issue with speed and size of someone on the footpaths, I could run fast and cause more problems than someone on a scooter on the path. Besides its not like Scooters will ever be that popular because people love transporting stuff around in their cars and they need/expect a certain level of protection from the elements which scooters, bikes and motorbikes will never exceed. Its a bit of a storm in a teacup which is why the UK police are not prosecuting electric scooter users at the moment.

Jogging on footpaths while respecting right of way is completely different from running helker-skelter, bumping and knocking people down. I hope we really don't need to debate the difference between the two.

The concept of codified law unfortunately does require that debate.

It isn't utterly sensible. Quite a lot of it was repealed in 1959. Including the parts about playing football. So legislators came to disagree with a fair amount of it over the years since.

> […] or shall play at Football or any other Game on any Part of the said Highways, to the Annoyance of any Passenger or Passengers […]

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