Authorities issued laws on the kinds of bicycles, electrical bikes and scooters allowed in designated areas
Resident using an e-scooter. Photo: Rahul Gajjar
Electric scooters with seats have been prohibited within the capital, stated the Integrated Transport Centre (ITC) of the Department of Municipalities and Transport (DoT) in Abu Dhabi.
The choice comes as a part of the bike and e-scooter consciousness marketing campaign launched by the ITC in collaboration with the Abu Dhabi Police. The native authorities have issued laws on authorised bicycles and electrical bikes, and scooters.
The ITC stipulates that the authorised bicycles are two-wheeled or extra, shouldn’t be geared up with an automatic engine, and are propelled by the power of their rider.
The authority famous that the e-scooter mustn’t encompass a seat, and only one rider is allowed per bike or e-scooter at a time.
ITC additionally clarified that within the case of an electrical scooter, it has to have two or extra wheels, and it have to be geared up with an electrical motor propelled by its electrical engine or by the power of its rider.
E-scooter also needs to be pushed upright and mustn’t encompass a seat. The variety of customers of the bicycle or e-scooter is restricted to one individual at a time.
Where to trip and keep away from
Riders should not drive bikes and e-scooters on public roads, highways, pedestrian lanes and sidewalks except permitted by the ITC.
Bikes and e-scooters could be pushed on permitted and devoted lanes and on inner roads the place the velocity restrict doesn’t exceed 40km/h.
Riders may use closed areas like public parks which has bike pathways and sidewalks with giant areas for bicycle and e-scooter customers as stipulated by the ITC whereas contemplating pedestrians on the best way.
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Don’t velocity, overtake
The ITC has warned riders to keep away from driving recklessly, at excessive velocity, to not overtake, and has requested them to depart a enough security distance from different customers.
“To avoid accidents, make sure you always leave a sufficient safety distance between you and other cyclists or pedestrians around you.”
Bicycle and e-scooter riders have been urged to comply with security directions, indicators, and site visitors alerts to present precedence to pedestrians. They ought to put on a protecting helmet and a reflective jacket at night time and equip the bicycle/e-scooter with a white headlight and a pink night time gentle or a pink reflector. Also, they have to park bikes/e-scooters in designated spots fairly than parking them randomly or inserting them on site visitors signposts and light-weight poles.