Re:Paris Votes to Ban Rental E-Scooters
by johannes1234321 on Monday April 03, 2023 @03:41AM
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Where there is proper infrastructure this works relatively okay. Where there is no infrastructure scooters take the pedastrian way as roads are dangerous.
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Copenhagen banned rental scooters from the city centre.
For some reason, people were finishing their ride and leaving the scooter in the bike lane, across the sidewalk, across a pedestrian crossing etc.
The rental companies were intentionally blocking the sidewalk in the city centre, arranging the scooters in neat lines overnight. Presumably for visibility/advertising.
All this happens to a much lesser extent with the SV-style ebike rental companies, though it's still not unusual to see those parked badly.
It happens rarely with the manual bike rental company. I think they make you photograph the parked bike when you finish, so they are almost always in a bike rack.