Looking over the plans for East Lake Corner at 2nd and Hosea, which were approved by the city this month, one detail popped out: The development may not be offering lots of car parking, but there will be plenty of space to park scooters and mopeds. That brought to mind this story I wrote a while back on scooter gangs. Key pullout:
The moped and its bigger, flashier cousin, the scooter, are swarming out of Jimmy Carter's America and into George W. Bush's republic - a movement propelled by soaring gasoline prices surpassing those of the late 1970s and by legions of Americans who take seriously the call for oil independence. If the serious intent is mixed with a little fun from "moped gangs" who call themselves the Heck's Angels or the Hardly Davidsons, so much the merrier.
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