The municipality of The Hague and its residents are more than tired of the nuisance caused by the shared scooters. According to the Ad, the parking problems Shared scooters have meanwhile grown to such an extent that the Municipality of The Hague no longer allows new providers in the city. Parking the Felyxes, Go's and Checks left and right on the sidewalk leads to a lot of annoyance in the city. The problem is not really new because many municipalities have been dealing with the same nuisance for years now.
Elderly people who use a walker or wheelchair can hardly use the sidewalk in many places. Young mothers or grandmothers with the pram recognize the problem and increasingly have to take to the public road to avoid the nuisance. You often see them standing in rows of ten or fifteen on often too narrow sidewalks, but they are also unsuspectingly left behind by the users on bicycle paths, traffic islands and guideways for the blind. What should we do with all that unused partial transport?
There is a real proliferation of shared scooters and bicycles in many cities. In Leiden, the nuisance is sometimes so bad that it has become impossible for pedestrians to use the sidewalk. Bicycles and scooters may be parked anywhere within the rules of the Road Traffic Act, just like regular scooters. They must not cause any nuisance. The same traffic rules apply to shared scooters as to regular scooters. Residents who complain about the shared scooters do so mainly because the vehicles are parked incorrectly or in an annoying way.
Many municipalities are realizing extra scooter parking spaces around the center to prevent parking nuisance and are holding enforcement actions on incorrectly parked scooters and unsafe driving behaviour. For example, the municipality of Tilburg has agreed with GO Sharing that users who cause nuisance will be excluded from using the scooters. If the municipality notices that the shared scooters are experiencing a lot of nuisance, new agreements will be made with GO Sharing. Companies such as Felix or Go Sharing are not interested in mandatory parking spaces for shared scooters. This greatly limits the use for riders who now often take a scooter in crowded places such as at the cinema or a hamburger joint.
In its own words, the Municipality of The Hague, together with the three scooter sharing providers, has done a lot in recent months to reduce the parking nuisance caused by shared scooters. For example, special parking spaces have been created along the coast for shared scooters and there are always parking coaches at the parking spaces on sunny days. Short lines between the municipality, the Nuisance hotline and the scooter sharing providers meant that a solution could always be found quickly if something threatened to go wrong.
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