Paris will ban electric skateboards on its streets

forcefully. Parisians voted in ‘rare public consultation’ ban the 15,000 electric skateboards currently roaming for his city

The option to ban vehicles he won with 89% of the vote. And so, the rental skateboards owned by Lime, Tier and Dott companies will have to go out of business.

Voters at the polls described the vehicles as “accident proneand have expressed their concern about the number of events they have been involved in.

Last year, for example, electric skateboards they were responsible for three deaths and 459 injuries in Paris, an increase of 42% compared to 2020.

One man even claimed it “almost lost her baby” after one of the vehicles hit his son.

“From personal experience, my seven-week-old baby was carried by his mother in an enclosed corridor was shot in the middle of the road from a scooter going the wrong way,” the man said.

“So after this, as a citizen and as a volunteer, we wanted to raise awareness“, He added.

Deputy Mayor David Belliard, Green politician in charge of transport in Paris, campaign against license renewal of scooter operators.

“Scooters fill the streets. They are parked on the sidewalks, they are poorly parked despite the dedicated spacesare dangerous obstacles, especially for the elderly and people with reduced mobility,” Belliard wrote on his Twitter account.

“Let’s instead focus our efforts on more accessible forms of mobility that produce less inconvenience and danger“, He added.

Also he doubted that scooters had any ecological benefitss, as non-recyclable lithium batteries have a short life.

In June last year, Linda Davis was the first pedestrian in the UK to do so died from an electric skateboard after being run over by a 14-year-old boy.

Another case was that of a 31-year-old Italian woman who died after being run over for an electric scooter that carries two people in 2021.

“E-scooters for rent They must withdraw from the streets of Paris before September 1,” according to Belliard.

However, skateboard operators have said so his younger clientele were unaware of the ticket. And they ask for the consultation to be held again so that they can participate.