Warsaw amends e-scooter rules
These concern parking areas, velocity limits and no-go areas
Warsaw introduces new rules for using electrical scooters, its metropolis web site introduced immediately. Five car rental operators have simply signed an settlement with town regulating the rules of transferring and parking e-scooters in public areas. The modifications are supposed to resolve the chaotic state of affairs that has been spoiling the city panorama of the Polish capital because the introduction of those units in 2018, in addition to to enhance highway security.
New rules for velocity, parking and entry of e-scooters in Warsaw
The lack of acceptable laws concerning what an e-scooter is, the place it might transfer and park have led to elevated dangers for all contributors within the Warsaw visitors prior to now few years. Luckily, the Polish capital has determined to observe within the footsteps of different EU cities, equivalent to Copenhagen and Helsinki by regulating this type of delicate mobility.
On 20 May, town enacted a regulation concerning the fundamental ideas and definitions associated to e-scooters. Another regulation from early November decided the technical circumstances and tools for these automobiles. Consequentially, in the previous few months, detailed rules have been labored on along with operators providing rental e-scooters.
The closing step is the signature of an settlement with 5 firms working in Warsaw (Bolt, Dott, Lime, Blinkee and TIER). Thus, the brand new rules for e-scooters concern:
- Parking: allowed solely in designated areas, and if there are none – on the pavement, parallel to its periphery. The metropolis is at present designating a community of parking areas with an acceptable sticker and expects to create 1000’s of regulated parking areas, thereby limiting random parking. Likewise, operators will solely be allowed to ship e-scooters to designated locations;
- Speed: e-scooters can not journey quicker than 20 km/h, which shall be set on the system by the operator. At some areas, the bounds are set even decrease to 12 km/h;
- No-go zones: equally to bikes, entry for e-scooters to some areas shall be barred. This includes the Old Town, Royal Łazienki Park and Krasiński Garden.
Finally, the results of the modifications are but to be evaluated. For this cause, operators will present town with some knowledge on journeys and leases in addition to different statistics that will facilitate the planning of parking networks or infrastructure for e-scooters.