Voting on ban
Paris throws out of town for e-scooters
In Paris, the controversial rental scooters must disappear by August. Around 90 percent of the votes went for a ban on scooters. However, turnout was extremely low.
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Farewell, scooters! The euphonious name for the electric scooters in Paris didn’t help in the end either. After a heated debate about road safety and environmental pollution, the citizens of the French capital voted on Sunday to ban rental scooters. With almost 90 percent of the votes cast. However, according to local media reports, turnout was a maximum of ten percent. The scooter rental companies Lime, Tier and Dott criticized that most of their mostly young customers did not know anything about the vote. This polling station showed that young and old are not synonymous with yes or no. “The scooters are thrown around like rubbish in nice parking lots. The lithium batteries are dead and many are thrown into the Seine.” “The only way for me to see my grandchildren who live across Paris or in the suburbs is if they can ride a scooter because the subways and buses don’t work, or on normal days it takes 45 minutes to an hour. With a scooter it takes 25 minutes.” “I voted against because it’s a mess in Paris. I own a scooter myself, but the way it’s organized, the danger it creates in Paris and the visual mess, that’s not good. ” The operators had offered to tighten security and control measures for the approximately 15,000 rental scooters in the city. But in vain. Your licenses should no longer be renewed. The rental scooters have to disappear from the cityscape by August.