Weeks pass, and the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, has still not made her decision on the renewal - or not - of the market for self-service scooters.
Without news from the elected officials, who were to call them at the end of October, the three operators TIER, Lime and Dott decided to go on the media offensive.
At a press conference this Thursday morning, they announced the implementation of 11 measures aimed at better regulating their activity.
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The most striking is the establishment of a mandatory identity check when registering for these services.
This measure, already in force in Lyon, will be applied from Monday.
The goal: to enforce the ban on minors, already in force, and better identify the perpetrators of offenses or incivilities.
This identification could also make it possible to identify two users on a single machine, a common practice but formally prohibited by law.
The number of patrollers doubled in the field
The three operators, who manage a total of 15,000 scooters in the streets of Paris, have also started to put license plates on each machine.
Although not provided for by the Highway Code, this system should allow the police or the emergency services to identify a vehicle or a customer involved in an accident, for example.
100% of the fleet will thus be registered in December.
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Among other proposals, Lime, Dott and Tier commit to excluding offenders, funding experimentation with video-verbalization, and improving technologies that prevent people from occupying sidewalks.
To better regulate parking, the three operators also want to double the number of patrollers on the ground by March 2023, in order to avoid chaos on around the 2,500 authorized locations.
More information to come