Paris Votes To Ban Rental e-Scooters
bbc| 4/2/23People in Paris have voted to ban rental electric scooters in their city, dealing a blow to scooter operators and a triumph for road safety campaigners.
Almost 90% of votes cast on Sunday favoured a ban the battery-powered devices, official results showed.
The referendum was called in response to a rising number of people being injured and killed on e-scooters in the French capital.
Paris was one of the first cities to adopt e-scooters.
Critics argue they were causing more harm than good. There was growing concern with the way some people were driving the scooters – weaving through traffic, dodging pedestrians on pavements, and getting up to speeds of 17mph (27km/h).
Riders often did not wear helmets and children as young as 12 could legally hire the e-scooters.
There was also criticism that groups of parked e-scooters were cluttering pavements.
A tired controversy…
Just ship ‘em all to the Bay Area – when BART finally collapses, commuters will need ‘em to avoid the junkies…
Hooligan e-scooter gangs, like the infamous Sons of Amp-archy, menace the public, committing the most heinous crimes such as relabeling cellar aged cheeses as cave aged and passing them off to unsuspecting Parisians.
Around here they tend to cause fires. I wonder if it is the same over there?
In France, fires are less spontaneous and more planned statements of grievance, usually involving Citroens and Renaults…