re the question in your title:
the only proper standard for judging whether any particular class of vehicles should be sharing special-lanes, is traffic-flow.
IF the flowspeed of bicycles & e-scooters is similar-enough, THEN yes.
IF the flowspeed of e-scooters is limited to be frustratingly-slow for bicyclists, THEN you’re just manufacturing more bicycle-motorvehicle collisions, by forcing bicyclists out from the lanes where they had been safe.
( I’m from Canada, not NZ, but have seen enough idiocy in legislation, including that bicycling “expert” who pushed that bike-lanes be removed, because they increased the total-number-of-collisions …
… WHILE HE IGNORED THAT HAVING 5 COLLISIONS ON A 100,000-CAR/WEEK BIKE-LANE ROAD WAS BEING COMPARED WITH A 3-COLLISIONS/WEEK ON A 500-car/week side-road, the idiot…
CORRECT statistics-understanding MUST be required for anybody to have any input into legislation!
it is per motor-vehicle/bicycle potential-interaction that the understanding needs to be centered on.
Having 2x the collisions, on a road with 100x the cars, is a per-potential-interation drop of 50x, not a total-increase of 2x, as that activist was pushing…
unfortunately, he’s a published-author, so he gets carte-blanche sway in many gov’ts )
Anyways, please earn good results, & may the benefits of properly-evolved legislation enable your communities as much as possible.
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I’m coming at this from another angle, & your being stuck in an MS-Surface may break it, but please try UbuntuStudio, on something: it augments Ubuntu-family with an entire sea of fixes for creatives.
I’ve no idea how to get a kernel patched to work with such hardware, sorry.
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