I really needed some time to put this in perspective, but wanted to recount what happened a few weeks ago when I had a head-on collision with a young man riding on a Bird scooter. I love the electric scooters so this incident was not easy to process.

I think the electric scooters have the potential to reshape transportation in cities. I love them. It's not the mode I'll chose, but I see how they work brilliantly for a huge group of people who probably won't ride bikes in same way.

I was riding home from work, on this sweet stretch of bike path in Marina del Rey that was opened this year to route cyclists around harbor construction. It's a two-lane bike path with a painted line separating the lanes.