If you live in London, you may have noticed the number of electric scooters have increased on the streets in these months. The Transport for London (TFL) officially allow the merchant to start the business about sharing of electric scooters in June, with a period about one year in some areas.
Tees Valley has start the business at last summer, and residents of Darlington, Hartlepool and Middlesbrough have been using the sharing electric scooters about one year. In the UK, more than 50 cities are allow the merchant to start the business about sharing mobility in the England, without Scotland and Wales.
Why more and more people riding the electric scooters nowadays? There is no doubt that, the COVID 19 is a great factor. During the period , many citizens prefer to use the scooters produced by Bird, Xiaomi, Pure and so on. For them, go mobility with scooter is a new random transport way with low-carbon.
Lime claims that 0.25 million kg CO2 emissions has reduced in 2018 through the users which used the scooter to go mobility within three months.
The amount of the CO2 emissions, even equivalent to more than 0.01 million litres of petroleum fuel and the absorption capacity of 0.046 million trees. The government has found that it not only can conserve the energy, but also can reduce the burden on the public transport system.
However, there are some people has objections about it. Someone worries about that the amount of the scooters which were put in on the streets is excessive, it may will threat the transportation especially the walkers. The scooters won’t have loudly noise, the walkers may couldn’t notice them at once even be injured by them.
A survey shows that, the frequency about accidents of scooters is higher than the bikes even 100 times. Until April in 2021, 70+ persons were injured by the sharing mobility, even 11 persons were injured seriously among them. In the past 2 years, there are over 200 riders were injured and hit 39 walkers in the London. A famous YouTuber lose her life in the July,2021 when she rode the scooter in the road and happened a traffic accident .
Many criminals has robbed and assaulted the walkers by the electric scooters, even a gunman rode the e-scooter to shot in Coventry. Some drug dealers will deliver the drugs by the e-scooters. Last year, more than 200 cases registered by the Metropolitan Police in London were related to e-scooters.
The UK government has neutral attitude about the electric scooters, they have permit the merchant to start the sharing mobility business and forbidden the personnel use their private scooters in the road. If someone break the rules, the riders will have a fine about 300 pounds and the driving license points will be deducted by six points.
Post time: Sep-18-2021
