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I feel like maybe they should ban e-scooter companies parking them on the sidewalk or something like that (or did they)? Why would it be illegal to rent e-scoot

• samtho 4y ago
  You are more likely to lock up your scooter at a bike rack or carry it with you than you would with a rental scooter.
• htag 4y ago
  E-scooter rental companies are in a contract with the city to allow the scooters to be parked on city property. Paris just ends the contracts. This isn't making anything illegal.
  • sshine 4y ago
    It happened in Copenhagen, too: E-scooters were restricted to a few areas. When you park them, a GPS has to agree that the e-scooter is within bounds. This can take forever. I came late to appointments and eventually gave up using them. The apps often have problems processing credit cards. It feels like society is rejecting them, and so they become less valuable. Renting a car is the same price, but with fewer problems.
• mnfx 4y ago
  They already had regulations that meant that they had to be parked in specific areas or fine the person who left it somewhere they shouldn't. But that didn't stop someone uninvolved in renting one walking by, picking one up and moving it. Nothing stopped people just riding along the paths at top speed hitting people or randomly darting into traffic. Soon as you entered any pedestrian square you had to be on the constant lookout for being smashed into by a scooter. Anything near the Louvre was particularly bad.
• stingrae 4y ago
  They did have parking zones.