People are comparing them to litter. You can also walk around trash, but you probably don't want trash everywhere. They're an eyesore and take up more space than a piece of trash. It makes the city look more 'dirty'. All they would have to do is have actual designated spaces for them to fix that, like how cars work.

So you wouldn’t mind people parking the scooters in front of your house then, since you can just walk around them?

I’ve seen scooters literally blocking entrances and pathways, heck people even take them inside buildings up to the 5th floor; not to mention that at night they emit a high pitched disrupting sound. Some people are plain lazy and highly inconsiderate. We need some rules because some people lack common sense.

> You literally walk around them, I don't see the issue.

It's not an issue for most people but I live up the road from an old folks home and often see the residents heading to the shops in their mobility scooters. If there's a dumped lime scooter blocking the footpath it completely stops them from using the footpath until someone moves it out of the way for them.

At least in the city I am in this seems to becoming less and less of an issue (despite there being more and more scooters) as people get used to them, and learn to properly park them.

Sidewalks aren't always wide enough to support foot traffic and parked scooters. I live in a residential part of a major city, with sidewalks designed a century ago, and a Bird (usually a cluster of them) is long enough to block 2/3 of the walking area.