This is an unexpected effect of the curfew in Nantes.
To meet the growing demand for home food deliveries, couriers have shifted from bicycles to scooters.
And in the city center, these backfires have become unbearable for many residents who have complained to the town hall.
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The reaction was not long in coming.
"The pedestrian areas of Nantes (…) are prohibited for the circulation of motorized two-wheelers with thermal engines"
, indicates article 2 of a municipal decree which entered into force on Monday, March 8.
On the other hand, those who circulate with
"an electric two-wheeler can circulate all day, from 6:00 am to 2:00 am."
But the investment is too expensive compared to the ridiculous price of a race, and very few delivery people own a silent scooter.
They therefore took this municipal decision very badly.
"The noise?
We also suffer it! "
In less than a week, the angry couriers organized two demonstrations in the city of the Dukes of Brittany.
The first, there is a
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