Posted on 09/01/2023 1:20:16 PM PDT by devane617
Paris will this week become one of the only cities in Europe with an outright ban on rented e-scooters — as operators plan to ramp up their e-bike fleets to replace them ahead of the 2024 Olympics.
Despite previously expressing hopes for a last-minute reprieve, the three firms with e-scooter operating licenses in the French capital, Lime, Dott and Tier, all confirmed to CNBC that they will have removed their scooters, or trottinettes, by the Sept. 1 deadline.
They had a combined fleet of roughly 15,000 e-scooters in the city.
A referendum held in April gave Parisians two choices regarding the rental scooters: for or against.
Companies pointed out that the turnout represented just 7% of those eligible to vote. They also argued the city would fall out of step with other urban hubs embracing an eco-friendly mode of transport that is popular with tourists in one of the most-visited cities in the world. They point out there will be no change to private e-scooter usage rules.
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Ban liberals and solve 99% of the problems.
Hazardous to everyone................
Those things are basically litter. Hoping Tucson doesn’t renew the contract when it comes up.
They need to ban Muslims
Like plastic bags that replaced paper...LIBs drove that clown car and see where it got them...Removing a recyclable product for a polluter. The e scooters are the next example of plastic bags.
They are dangerous.
Before Covid, people were regularly wrecking themselves and/or pedestrians
The also don’t follow the safety laws and the people I saw riding them were pretty dang’d arrogant and believe they owned the road and right of way.
Except e-scooters are basically designed to be that way. The idea is you rent one, ride to where you want to go, and leave it for somebody else, or your return trip. Which sounds OK until a bunch of people ride them one way and nobody rides them another. And they never park them all orderly like in the promo pics. You just get this pile of the things on the sidewalk.
Yes
The idiots were out in rush hour traffic as I was going to work in the evening
Stupid
They are a nuisance anywhere they are present. Riders leave them abandoned in front of businesses, on sidewalks, in vacant lots, and even in lakes/rivers/streams.
Very dangerous. If you hit something while traveling fast, you can go flying and easily end up with a brain injury. Google search results have plenty on it.
I was an earwitness to one accident a few years ago. Sadly, the young man of about 20 at the time may have ended up in a nursing home, never to be the same, after getting a traumatic brain injury, which included bleeding on the brain that almost killed him.
I heard the crash, and turned to see him lying in the road, unconscious. From the looks of it, he’d hit a median while trying to go around it, and flew off the scooter. It was on one side of the median, and he was on the other.
I called 911, and later his family called me to see what I’d witnessed. That’s when I found out he’d been so terribly injured. Months later I heard his injuries looked to be long lasting.
I also know personally of two other people with serious injuries — a man with a less severe TBI, who was still having bad headaches months after, again, hitting something in the road, and a woman who broke her leg after hitting a curb.
“For E-Scooter Riders, Risk Of Head Injury In A Crash Is High”:
“A rider’s head is particularly at risk in e-scooter crashes, and it’s a significant problem. The micro-mobility mode is rapidly increasing in popularity as a means of transportation and for fun, and along with that growth comes a jump in the prevalence of crashes. In a crash test designed to assess e-scooter (electric scooter) safety, head impact on the ground occurred in almost every case, and was often severe.”
In NYC they are as ubiquitous as mosquitos are in Orlando, and their riders, mostly delivery persons, move with a greater degree of hazard than regular bicyclists, treating sidewaks and roadways equally in their hazardous behavior toward others. When I am a pedestrian in NYC now I am far, far, far more on the look out for some two wheeled vehcile to come flying toward me, from any direction, than I ever had to do for regular bicylists for over 40 years.
We had them, but they didn’t last long, because people wouldn’t take them back. They just dropped them wherever the batteries died.
I worked at Safeway before any plastic bags were available. When the first plastic bags arrived, they were horrible. ‘Save the Trees’ horsepuckey. Often, we would put some items in a plastic bag, and then put the entire plastic bag in a strong paper bag. (As it is today, pick up the bag, paper, plastic, whatever, and hold/carry it by the bottom). No bag handles will break if you hold it by the bottom. If you have to make a few more trips back and forth, enjoy the exercise and sunshine.
Also, those canvas bags many are touting are gathering places for all kinds of shhhhhtuff.
I believe the Wuhan Lab used some of the shhhhhtuff at the bottom of the reusable canvas bags.
Agreed. They do seem to enjoy a certain smugness as they spurt around on these powered child’s toys. Idiots. Get a bicycle. Get a scooter. Get small car. Grow up.
Saw some kid go headfirst into a lightpole in San Francisco 4 years ago.
Probably couldn’t scoot away from that one....
It’s sad that all of the Karen’s on this site, supposed free market conservatives are crying that the government needs to ban something.
A city banning something is much different than a State or National government banning it.
It wasn’t all that bad an idea, but the clientele are a bunch
of idiots. If there’s a way to be a ‘bad player’ with these,
things, the people that use them will discover it.
San Diego had to clamp down on them too. You’d find 90 of
them dumped in one big pile, or so close to each other, you’d
think it was one pile.
Right in the middle of the sidewalk, they’d just jump off and
leave the thing there. Beats anything I’ve ever seen.
The average IQ of these people must be south of 90.
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