A series of observations:

The rising popularity of motor-assisted bicycles of various sorts means that people can now zip around in the dark without lights much faster than they could under leg-power alone.

Does putting on a motorcycle helmet and riding one of those little electric scooters make people more likely to follow traffic laws? Does it make them tend to think “I’m traffic” rather than “I’m on a bike so I can do what I want” even though the scooters are more like bicycles than cars (i.e. being ridden along the side of the road/lane rather slower than traffic even though faster than most bicycles.)

Walking along Thursday afternoon someone on one of those scooters made a left turn from Laurier the wrong way onto Kent (a one-way street.)