Rented e-scooters cleared from Paris streets on eve of ban

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Electric scooter rental experiment in French capital ends after 5 years of controversy

Paris will become the first European capital to ban rented electric scooters on Friday, as the city hall vowed to “calm down” the streets.became the first city in Europe to open up to the “free-floating” shared e-scooter market in 2018, the last of the city’s 15,000 e-scooters were loaded into vans on Thursday afternoon, marking the end of an era.

In 2020, after complaints of anarchic use of e-scooters and Paris becoming a dangerous “jungle”, the city introduced the strictest regulations in the world, limiting the number of operators and automatically tracking and limiting speeds. But that wasn’t enough to calm the row.

 

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