“In my work, we see a lot of road accidents caused by scooters, so we really see the negative effects,” general physician Audrey Cordier, 38, told Reuters after voting against the scooters.
Electric scooters accessed through smartphone apps have operated in Paris since 2018, but following complaints about their anarchic deployment, Paris in 2020 cut the number of operators to three.
It gave them a three-year contract, required that scooters’ speed be capped at 20kmh and imposed designated scooter parking areas. The current contracts will run until September.
Operators had offered further regulations, including checking users were over 18, fixing licence plates so police could identify traffic offenders and limiting to one passenger.
On Sunday, operators such as Tier and Lime sent free voucher codes to users to encourage them to vote against the ban.
Some voters said they would have rather had tighter regulations than an outright ban.
“I voted for (the scooters) because I’m against the rather binary choice we’re given in this referendum. I don’t want scooters to do whatever they wants on pavements, but banning them is not the priority,” Pierre Waeckerle, 35, said.
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