PARIS: Parisians woke up today to a world without free-floating rented electric scooters, loathed as a pedestrian-bothering nuisance by some but mourned by others.
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo had herself campaigned against scooters, saying removing them would reduce “nuisance”. Operators Lime, Tier and Dott have been gradually removing their 15,000 machines from public streets, planning to send them off to other cities in Europe and beyond after repair and maintenance work.
The Californian firm will send its scooters to Lille in northern France, London, Copenhagen and several German cities, while Dott’s will go to Belgium and Tel Aviv.Instead of scooters, the firms hope customers will switch to floating hire bicycles, which all of them already have on offer. But bikes “are different, those bikes are big and heavy … not as agile”, said Amanda Rollins, a Paris-based American influencer with 740,000 TikTok subscribers who has posted about her love of scooters.
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