Issues for "safety", "disorder", cohabitation "sometimes difficult with pedestrians" ... Because of the lack of respect for users vis-à-vis the regulations, self-service electric scooters will disappear from Montreal in 2020, announces the Quebec city this Wednesday. He added: "only 20% of scooters have been parked" in the dedicated areas.
"Montreal does not want to turn into a scooter police," said Eric Alan Caldwell, head of mobility within the town hall, lambasting "an 80% delinquency rate" regarding compliance with regulations. "The operators have failed to ensure their responsibility for compliance with the regulations," he pointed out.
No serious accident
The city drew “a report of failure” for the 680 vehicles deployed since June, on the occasion of the assessment of the pilot project of electric bikes and scooters in Montreal. A total of 110 statements of offense were issued for poorly parked scooters and bicycles and 333 tickets for non-compliance with the road safety code, mainly concerning the wearing of helmets.
No fatal or serious accident has involved self-service electric scooters. "The permits for electric bikes will be renewed, but governed by tighter regulations," said the city.
In many cities around the world, the appearance of these new silent devices was quickly perceived as a threat by pedestrians and the authorities began to want to regulate them. In November, Singapore decreed a ban on electric scooters on sidewalks, following in Germany and France. In Paris, around 20,000 electric scooters are deployed. It's 30 times more than in Montreal ...
