In a referendum, 89% of Parisians voted against keeping shared e-scooters in the city; Lime, Dott, and Tier will have to pull their fleets out by September 1
In a major blow to shared micromobility companies Lime, Dott and Tier, Paris has voted to ban rental e-scooters from their streets.
TechCrunch Rebecca Bellan
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@populismupdates
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89% have voted to ban electric scooters in a non-binding referendum held in Paris today (The extremely low turnout must be noted, however) https://twitter.com/...
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@parismarx
Paris Marx
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A welcome development on the “micromobility” file. (Notice we don't hear that term much anymore since the hype dissipated.) These scooter rentals were never the path to better active mobility, and Paris has shown it better than any other city. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
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PARIS — People in the French capital have voted to ban electric-scooter rental services from its streets in a hotly debated referendum, a dark signal for an urban transportation market that the city helped pioneer. @WSJ https://www.wsj.com/...
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@catherine_lucey
Catherine Lucey
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People in the French capital have voted to ban electric-scooter rental services from its streets in a hotly debated referendum https://www.wsj.com/...
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@ryangirdusky
Ryan James Girdusky
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Yes! I would like to ban rental bikes in nyc https://twitter.com/...