The for-hire electric scooters that have become ubiquitous in Paris and other cities worldwide were banned in the French capital...The for-hire electric scooters that have become ubiquitous in Paris and other cities worldwide were banned in the French capital from yesterday.
It is the biggest metropolis to remove the app-based devices that first zoomed onto streets in 2018, but many other cities have taken action on the vehicles that can in[1]spire love or loathing. While users hail them as eco-friendly ways to avoid gridlock, detractors consider them as an unsightly menace with the power to maim and kill.The French capital was an early adopter of e-scooters in 2018, with the pavements soon strewn with discarded rental devices from the first operator, Lime.After an uproar over the anarchy and a number of fatal accidents, the city clamped down, reducing the number of operators to three and the number of scooters to 15 000.