Paris Becomes the First European Capital to Ban Rented Electric Scooters
Paris Becomes the First European Capital to Ban Rented Electric Scooters
But the city is adding bike lanes, and scooter companies are shifting their focus to electric bikes. E-scooters were involved in accidents resulting in the deaths of three people in Paris last year.
resulting in the deaths of three people in Paris last year
Oh, wow! Paris will be so much safer now! I sure love not having to worry about a form of personal transportation that was responsible for three (3) deaths in a year - goodness knows what the city would look like if there was an even worse offender!
It was a good solution, only once more humanity proved itself lame. Surprised? Nah
I dunno, this kinda seems like a step backwards. Are there really alternatives other than cars that people want to use?
Paris already has pretty high congestion taxes to reduce cars. They have a solid public transit system that most people use. Spent two weeks there right before COVID and never once needed a car - metro was always faster and cheaper according to Google Maps.
Last time I was in Paris I saw small mountains everywhere of those on the street where people tossed them or collected them in a single spot. It was insane. I think Paris had an issue with the amount of escooters that flooded the city. Vienna for example has put a limit on the amount of scooters - seems to work so far.
First of many hopefully
Good! This was meant to foster electric micro-mobility, but I see mostly kids and teenagers using them for joyriding and then leave them somewhere on the sidewalk or throw them in some ditch.