Residents of Paris have voted overwhelmingly to ban for-hire electrical scooters from town’s streets, in what's seen as a victory for street security campaigners.
In a referendum on Sunday, 90 per cent of voters backed the ban, however with lower than 8 per cent of these eligible putting a vote.
The scooters are straightforward to find and rent by means of a downloadable app, and could be picked up and dropped off anyplace across the metropolis that the renters select.
However whereas they're a success with vacationers, many Parisians complain that the e-scooters are an eyesore and a site visitors menace, with pedestrians complaining about reckless driving.
Since their introduction to town 5 years in the past, they've been concerned in lots of of accidents, a few of them deadly.
"They're harmful, each for many who use them and for pedestrians," Francoise Granier, a physician who voted on Sunday informed AFP.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, who campaigned to have them banished on security, public nuisance, and environmental cost-benefit grounds, described the result of the vote as “very clear”.
Consequently, the 15,000 self-service scooters will vanish from town centre on the finish of August when town's contracts with the three operators expire.
This implies Paris, which pioneered assist for the "trottinettes" as they're recognized, is now set to develop into the one main European capital to outlaw them.
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