The people living in Paris, the capital of France, went to the polls set up all over the city last Sunday and voted for the future of e-scooters. The overwhelming majority of Parisians are electrified on the streets of the French capital.
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Paris vs e-scooter
The rate of those who wanted e-scooters to be banned in the referendum was 89 percent, but the extremely limited participation in the voting caused questions. Because only 7-8 percent of the Paris electorate went to vote, which corresponds to approximately 103 thousand people. According to the result of the referendum initiated by Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, the fleet of 15,000 e-scooters belonging to Lime, Dott and Tier, which signed a contract to operate in the City of Light, will be withdrawn from the city until 1 September.
Solution turned into problem
Cities around the world, meanwhile, are tightening regulations on e-scooters, including the number of operators, speed and where they can park. In 2021, 24 people died in scooter-related accidents in France, including one in Paris. There were 459 accidents with e-scooters and similar vehicles in Paris last year, three of which were fatal. Accessed via smartphone apps, electric scooters have been operating in Paris since 2018, but in 2020 Paris had reduced the number of operators to three, amid complaints about their anarchic deployment.
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