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E-scooters: No more free floating on paths and rivers!
Malicious tongues claim: Micromobility is just another term for "too lazy to walk." When looking at the few pieces of data available so far, one must admit: there's some truth to that. It seems that previous walking paths are being replaced—while pure fun rides are added, often as a replacement for a "ride" at the fair, sometimes with two people and occasionally under the influence of alcohol. In the rarest of cases is a car ride replaced. And those who have a bicycle usually rarely switch to a "wobbly" scooter, simply because there's no need if one can pedal confidently on a bike.
Thus, the evidently rather limited benefit is offset by a not insignificant "damage" to the public: Chaotically parked scooters become a nuisance for pedestrians and especially for visually impaired individuals, the scooters are a real horror.
Under the motto "Whatever moves can also be thrown," the lightweight electric vehicles end up in the river in some places, causing huge recovery costs and ecological damage, the extent of which is difficult to assess. This was certainly not what was meant by "Free Floating."
Instead of relief, the new e-mobiles add further burden to the already strained road space in cities. It is still questionable how sustainable the vehicles themselves are: durability, distribution, recycling—problems have been created once again that didn't exist before.
It's like so often: The municipalities have embarked on an adventure with an uncertain outcome, driven by a federal transport minister infatuated with micromobility and flying taxis, who apparently wanted to conceal his lack of real ideas for a genuine transport revolution and give himself a modern image. One could have known this after the O-Bike debacle with hundreds of sunken and "abused" cheap bikes. But at least they didn't have leaking lithium batteries.
What to do? The municipalities must regain sovereignty and determine where the scooters can be parked and how they are used. Ideally, the scooter providers claim that they also want to connect the routes to public transport. Yes, then parking facilities must be created at public transport stops where the scooters can ideally also be charged right there, instead of inducing additional traffic with vans or other vehicles for cumbersome battery swapping.
Generally, we should urgently consider "free-floating": It may be convenient for the user, but for the general public, it's simply annoying when the scooters are left wherever the individual pleases. Fixed parking and rental zones for light e-mobiles would be a good start.
And whoever rents the scooter can only park it in designated spots, preferably secured in a way that prevents vandalism from occurring in the first place.
Only then could e-vehicles truly contribute to relieving the burden on cities, as stationary bike rental systems are already doing. And a few meters of walking have never harmed anyone. After all, the most primitive means of transport are our own two feet.
Translated automatically from German.
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