The Paris police chief issued an order on Thursday banning the circulation of electric scooters at night on part of the Avenue des Champs-Elysées until July 31. This measure was taken because of the “multiplication of uncivil individual behavior on the part of road users and by an anarchic occupation of public space by groups of individuals making dangerous use of electric scooters”, wrote the police headquarters in a press release.
The decree, valid from Thursday until July 31, prohibits the circulation of electric scooters between “10 p.m. and 6 a.m.” between “the Champs-Elysées roundabout and Place Charles-de-Gaulle included” . “Additional” police officers will also be mobilized “in order to increase the number of road checks” and ensure compliance with the law governing the sale of nitrous oxide, or “laughing gas”, adds the prefecture.
Speed limit in sight
The Paris city hall threatened on Tuesday the three private operators of self-service electric scooters operating in the capital not to renew their contract if they do not make progress on the speed limit and parking. In mid-June, a 32-year-old Italian woman died after being struck by an electric scooter on a pedestrian alley along the Seine.