No more room for vroom? Paris votes on banishing e-scooters
Sunday, 2 April 2023
The wheels may be about to come off Paris’ experiment with for-hire electric scooters. Zipping around the City of Light on one of them, wind in the hair, or romantically but naughtily e-scooting à deux on one machine when the gendarmes aren’t looking could soon be over. That's if Parisians vote on Sunday to do away with the 15,000 opinion-dividing micro-vehicles. The question City Hall is asking in a citywide mini-referendum is: “For or against self-service scooters in Paris?” The answer could doom a leading market for the swift two-wheelers that have added to locomotion options in the French capital and other urban centers and towns around the world.
The wheels may be about to come off Paris’ experiment with for-hire electric scooters. Zipping around the City of Light on one of them, wind in the hair, or romantically but naughtily e-scooting à deux on one machine when the gendarmes aren’t looking could soon be over. That's if Parisians vote on Sunday to do away with the 15,000 opinion-dividing micro-vehicles. The question City Hall is asking in a citywide mini-referendum is: “For or against self-service scooters in Paris?” The answer could doom a leading market for the swift two-wheelers that have added to locomotion options in the French capital and other urban centers and towns around the world.
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