Paris says au revoir to rental e-scooters

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Paris says au revoir to rental e-scooters

The ban comes after a vote in the French capital - but is it democracy in action?

www.bbc.co.uk

Who's next....?

 

[Woosh]

e-scoots as parisians call them. They are a menace to pedestrians and car drivers. One minute they are on the pavement, the next they are on the road and quite often, you are not aware nor hear them coming up from behind. Half of the times, they are left strewn on the pavement, nobody cares. Good riddance.
Privately owned e-scooters are still tolerated at the moment. The SNCF starts to refuse them on their trains.

 

[Bikes4two]

Who's next....?

Answer: Canterbury scrapped their e-scooter trial in November 2022 meaning an e-scooters in public places after that were definitely illegal, but according to this Kent Messenger article HERE, nobody including the police, seem overly bothered about their continuing use.

 

[flecc]

As made clear on a TV program, Cheshire Police have acted very strongly against e-scooters, stopping the riders often by chasing them and confiscating the machines. As shown with batteries removed for recycling, all the scooters are shredded for their metal scrap. They aren't alone, though other forces are more spasmodic in their responses.

I agree with Woosh, e-scooters are a dangerous menace and a real nuisance to the majority of the public. All the evidence shows that they cannot safely fit in anywhere, whether here in our confined cities and towns or in more spacious continental cities like Paris. I hope our government will have the courage at the end of the trial to tell the US companies to pack up their machines and go back home.

However the cowardly nature of this government has already resulted in them extending the trial, rather than face up to making a decision and acting. So I fear the worst, them allowing the present situation to indefinitely carry on with ever more illegal and overpowered dangerous e-scooters and motorised bicycles cluttering up the roads.

It will be interesting to see if they put pressure to desist on the few police forces like Cheshire that are acting positively to control illegal e-scooter use outside of the trial.
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