After voting, 15 thousand scooters will disappear from central Paris at the end of August when the city’s contracts with three operators expire.
Paris municipality asked voters in a city referendum on Sunday whether or not they are in favor of a scooter rental service in Paris.
According to the municipality, slightly more than 103 thousand people voted. people, of which 89 percent spoke once morest the service, and only 11 percent supported her.
Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, hailed the vote as a “public consultation” rather than a referendum and said the results were “very clear”.
“From September 1, there will be no more rental scooters in Paris,” she said.
The number of voters who participated in the voting was very modest.
All 1.38 million people might vote. registered Paris voters.
Scattered around Paris, scooters are readily available and can be rented using a downloadable app.
The service is relatively cheap and popular with tourists who like the speed and freedom of movement it offers.
In the five years since the service began, the vehicle has become popular with a segment of Parisians who don’t want or can’t afford to own one, but enjoy being able to avoid the metro and other public transportation.
Still, many Parisians complain that the e-scooters are littered everywhere and pose a threat to traffic safety, and their users have been involved in hundreds of accidents, some of them fatal.
A. Hidalgo and some of her deputies campaigned to abandon the rental of electric scooters due to the safety, public inconvenience, environmental cost-benefit ratio before the Olympic Games to be held in the capital next year.
