Mayor of Paris plans to take new measures against electric scooters as pavements turn into a battleground between those on wheels and those on foot
Dock-free electric scooters Lime-S by California-based bicycle sharing service Lime are stacked on Parisian cobblestones in a street of Paris, France, May 19, 2019.
Paris is cracking down on electric scooters after an anarchic year in which startups flooded the city's streets with their vehicles. The French capital has 12 free-floating scooter operators, more than the entire United States, according to a study released Thursday, and about 20,000 of the two-wheeled vehicles.
Broken scooters end up in some of the city's famed gardens or are even tossed over bridges into the Seine, and the city's sidewalks have become something of a battleground between riders and pedestrians.After repeated complaints and a spate of injuries and near-misses, the mayor and police want to limit speeds to 20 kilometres per hour in most areas, and 8 kilometres per hour in areas with heavy foot traffic, and prohibit parking anywhere but designated spaces.
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