Nine out of ten Parisians have voted in favor of banning rental electric scooters from the city’s streets. Once seen as a pioneering form of green transport, the vehicles rapidly became a scourge as users flouted traffic laws and caused crashes and injuries.
Voters chose to ban the scooters by 89% to 10% in a “public consultation” on Sunday organized by Mayor Anne Hidalgo. Though the vote was non-binding, Hidalgo has vowed to implement the ban from September onwards.
The measure covers scooters rented to tourists and visitors by companies such as Lime, Dott, and Tier. These three firms own nearly 15,000 e-scooters, which users book via smartphone apps. The ban will not affect privately-owned scooters
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It’s literally impossible to ride an e-scooter and not look like a dork, doesn’t help that most people who ride one are millennials in business casual. Get a cruiser skateboard or just an e bike nerds
Edit: I know they're more expensive, but a city with e bikes to rent everywhere would be amazing
Riding a car is more of a dork move
The ideal is ebike rental that's free for the first hour or something, that you have to leave at a dock.