2023-09-01 10:18:57
Disappointed but determined not to let go of the Parisian market for new mobility, the three companies have changed gears and are now focusing on self-service electric bicycles. LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP
Considered cumbersome, annoying or even dangerous, the 15,000 self-service electric scooters will have disappeared from the streets of Paris this Friday. But not the bicycles, which take advantage of the space left free.
«The end of self-service scooters is also a signal of appeasement in the Parisian public space. We tried to regulate, but the result was not there“, said David Belliard, the deputy mayor of Paris in charge of mobility, the day after the announcement of the results of the citizen vote organized on Sunday April 2 to decide whether or not to maintain electric scooters in the city. capital city. Just over 100,000 Parisians then voted more than 89% against, signing the end of the presence in the City of Light of motorized vehicles operated by Dott, Lime and Tier.
Disappointed but determined not to let go of the Parisian market for new mobility, the three companies have changed gears and are now focusing on self-service electric bicycles. If they have already been deployed on the territory for several years, their number could well explode, due to the departure of electric scooters. The American company Lime alone has already deployed a fleet of…
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