Probably depends on every city specifically. In Vienna they can park at bike parking spots. But the whole thing is also still developing.
Where do you live?
I live in a city that bans parking them in the middle of sidewalks and close to doors. I’ve not heard of any local law against blocking bicycle racks.
So are you saying these platforms are just mirroring into their terms the laws of each city they operate in on a per-city basis? That’s a bit more sophisticated than I envisioned. I would have thought each rental company would be simply creating a single set of rules for users that would comply with all cities they operate in.
Just had an idea for an action: we could make stickers with a scooter with a line through it and stick those on the racks. Obviously they wouldn’t carry any weight but might deter the nuisance to some extent nonetheless. Though there’s nothing wrong with personally owned scooters being locked so tricky to express that on the sticker.
There’s a widespread nuisance of shared e-scooters ~~(which do not need to be locked) take up bicycle stalls that cyclists need to lock their bikes. Are e-scooter platforms instructing users to use bicycle racks? Or are people doing that against policy?~~
FTFY.
Sorry for not answering your question OP, but just wanted to vent about how much I dispise those things.
This community is for people to ask questions they feel stupid for not knowing the answer or how to find the answer. "How do I not already know this?"