By the way concentrating on St. Georges and promoting our World Heritage site is an excellent idea for these vehicles. But again, work with the existing first.

Now there is so many concerns about this and the guys will either have to alter their plans or cancel.

Bunch of backwards people. Shoot I coulda warned the BTA to make sure the gentleman visit TCD, etc to make sure that their idea is doable before funding is promised, etc. But as always many in the bta claim that they know what they’re doing but obviously not. This is a prime example. Whoever approved of this in the bta should apologize for the big screw up. Dumb meet dumber.

Tourists say they’ve been to Bermuda, but in reality they’ve only been to Dockyard and horseshoe bay.

Perhaps the ScootCoupe folks already have plans for suggested routes for their tours that can be analysed.

These would be the people who would likely rent a scooter if they didn’t have a kid with them, or weren’t unnerved by our roads and drivers, or had more time.

It’s another option and while I understand the Taxi operators concerned, like everyone else they need to understand that Bermuda needs to offer options to tourists and, personally, I think this is a great one.

And honestly, can they possibly be any more dangerous than the usual scooters, or that train thing?

Except for a bit more comfort and a bit more storage (hopefully safer than the existing rental fleet), I don’t see a problem as long as they park in regular parking and obey the traffic laws.

Don’t see it much different than the rent-a-wreck scooters out there now (not saying the scooters are bad – just they become wrecks when non-bike riders take them).

Perhaps you can come up with a scheme where tourists are not allowed to come here at all, but still have to send us their vacation money?

Or perhaps you should just ‘get a grip’.

sounds just like taxis

As far as the tours go, the jury is still out in my mind. Not so concerned about the speed of them. The speed is most likely a bit better than 20mph so that is not an issue. The concern is where can these tours stop as a group & not obstruct the normal flow of traffic. For a place that likes to lay claim about its beauty there are precious few turnouts along our roads where anyone can stop & enjoy the view, never mind a landbound jetski tour with half a dozen of them.

The roads may be scenic but there are no turnouts as found along scenic roads like the Natchez Trace or the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Also, if they can be used in a tour why not rent them individually as well? Why not even permit such vehicles for use as private vehicles? 2 of these take up the parking space of 1 car.

However, narrow minded Bermuda will fight it all the way and only give in when there are virtually no options (or tourists) left. Such is the way in ‘Spashul’ ‘Entitled’ Bermuda.

Ddn’t you taxi guys campaign against the PLP?

You deserve whatever licks you get.

idiots

As long as they get back to the ship before feeding time, you should be OK.

Visitors do need more options.

They also need safe means of self transportation. I’m surprised none of the rental cycle places have pushed for bringing in trikes for visitors to rent.

Hope they are being limited to off-peak traffic hours tho. These whould have minimal to no impact on flow of traffic outside of rush hour.