For the Minister of Transport, it is necessary to “strengthen controls and obligations”, without prohibiting these two-wheeled vehicles.
Scooters are currently at the heart of the debate. Speed, accidents, dangerousness… these two-wheeled machines are singled out by some elected officials. For Anne Hidalgo, who wants to stop these vehicles, it “lacks a street code to say how we behave, and how the municipal police punish those who do not respect the rules“. In an interview given to Parisian the mayor of the capital proposes a vote to Parisians on April 2 for the maintenance, or not, of scooters.
In response, the Minister of Transport stressed on Tuesday that he was “notnot for a banof these scooters. “An outright ban represents a simplistic provision“, he added on France 2. According to Clément Beaune, these machines still have qualities: “These are ecological means of getting around which make it possible to avoid the use of scooters, for example.»
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The Minister agrees, however, scooters must be regulated. The government is thus workingto a national regulatory plan», in consultation with the associations. “I want us to strengthen security measures, controls and obligations“, insisted Clément Beaune. If he did not provide more details, new provisions could concern the use of the telephone, the wearing of the helmet or the age of use of the scooters.
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