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The center of Nantes soon banned from scooter delivery men

2021-02-04T16:37:11.194Z


Dozens of complaints from residents and traders have been piling up over the past year. Nantes “Sometimes there are nine or ten waiting in front of restaurants. Then they storm off and roll like barges. At night, after the curfew, it's even worse. ” Thierry lives in a newly pedestrianized street in downtown Nantes, close to the prefecture. This father only hears the many scooter delivery men who drive for UberEats or Deliveroo: “I live on the first floor, it's still tenable, but my


Nantes

“Sometimes there are nine or ten waiting in front of restaurants.

Then they storm off and roll like barges.

At night, after the curfew, it's even worse. ”

Thierry lives in a newly pedestrianized street in downtown Nantes, close to the prefecture.

This father only hears the many scooter delivery men who drive for UberEats or Deliveroo:

“I live on the first floor, it's still tenable, but my neighbor on the ground floor has moved to Rezé, on the outskirts. . "

“You leave your house and the scooters shave you.

The Bouffay district

(in the center, editor's note)

has become the most dangerous for children or seniors, ”

assures Corinne, another local resident, member of the Ras le Scoot Nantes collective, created a year ago.

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There are around 700 food delivery people in Nantes.

Of which 70% would now use scooters, faster and less tiring than bicycles.

Since the first containment, the traffic has been increasing.

Dozens of residents and traders complained.

The city of Nantes has therefore decided to prohibit pedestrian access to the city center for all scooters after 11:30 a.m.

The municipal decree will be published ... at the end of the curfew period, according to the town hall.

About a hundred streets will be affected, seven days a week.

"An announcement effect"

Nantes is the second city in France to adopt this system, after Montpellier since mid-January.

Paris is also considering it.

“Scooters will have to park on the side of roads, on dedicated parking spaces.

Then do the missing 50 meters on foot.

Or take an electric bike, ”

explains Pascal Bolo, deputy (PS) for security and public tranquility.

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A strengthening of municipal police checks (equipment, registration card, certificate) this summer had not had a deterrent effect.

“We do not wish, at this stage, to completely ban deliveries, it would not make sense vis-à-vis restaurants and their customers, but we want to regulate them more and more.

Everyone has an interest in it, ”

adds the elected representative from Nantes.

These are exploited people, who know little Nantes and do what they can.

Corinne, from the Ras le Scoot Nantes collective

The platforms are not convinced.

A spokesperson for Delivroo warns that

"anything that would hinder the activity of restaurants in this particularly difficult period for them seems to us to have to be the subject, on the part of the municipal authorities, of a very thorough reflection. , concerted and prudent ”.

On the side of Uber Eats, we put before

"

(of)

concrete actions for a harmonious sharing of the public highway and

(the reminder)

to the delivery men of the rules which they must respect in terms of parking"

.

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Still an unknown: how will the ban be applied?

Because a new population of delivery people has mostly replaced the students.

Undocumented migrants for many, from West or North Africa, who sublet auto-entrepreneur accounts via parallel networks.

They would be a hundred in Nantes, according to a recent survey by

Ouest-France.

“These are exploited people, who know little Nantes and do what they can,

notes Corinne of the Ras le Scoot Nantes collective.

This ban is an announcement effect.

Motorized two-wheelers should be totally prohibited in the center and, above all, paid parking should be imposed.

Source: lefigaro

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