Towards a ban on self-service scooters in Paris?


A self-service scooter parking lot on Boulevard Exelmans in Paris in January. ARNAUD ROBIN/Le Figaro Magazine

DECRYPTION – Dissatisfied with the service, Anne Hidalgo must decide soon whether or not to ban this type of scooter at the end of the contract, in February 2023.

Last lap in sight? The future of self-service scooters in the capital is anything but assured. At the end of September, David Belliard, deputy mayor of Paris in charge of mobility, sounded the alarm. Anarchic use of public space, serious accidents, questionable ecological balance sheet… he left a few weeks to the three operators (Lime, Tier, Dott), who operate a total of 15,000 shared machines in Paris, to remedy all these malfunctions.

An ultimatum with a threat: “All the solutions are on the table, including that of stopping the convention” when the contract expires in February 2023, warned the elected EELV. So far, the mayor of Paris had not decided. Examined Tuesday evening in the Paris council, the wish of the LR-UDI opposition to further supervise this activity was not adopted. And Anne Hidalgo has still not made her decision known. To the chagrin of the operators, who are getting impatient.

On Monday, they took up the pen together to ask for an appointment with…

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