Cities need strong enough means to regulate the age limits of electric scooter users, as well as the parking, overall number of and use times of e-scooters. Night-time use increases the risk of accidents, as the users of e-scooters are also unfortunately often intoxicated. We request that a legal limit for blood alcohol content be introduced for e-scooter use.
”We want to keep electric scooters in our cityscape in the future, but the frequent dangerous situations and problems with following the existing rules show that the situation urgently needs to be brought under control with clear game rules that are founded in legislation. It should also be possible to impose some kind of penalty fee for non-compliance with the agreed-upon rules,” says Mayor of Helsinki Juhana Vartiainen.
The Finnish government is preparing new legislation for micro-mobility as a whole, according to the Government Programme. Legislation is required to clarify and improve the situation by next year.
“The mention in the Government Programme about giving cities the tools to manage micro-mobility must be prepared quickly. We hope that the State and the responsible Minister Lulu Ranne will above all make sufficiently ambitious preparations that take into account the very real and frequent dangerous situations. At the moment, the situation as a whole is not under the control of any operator, which unfortunately is clearly visible in all large cities,” says Mayor of Tampere Kalervo Kummola.
”It must be possible to create the space and proper operating conditions for new forms of mobility that are popular with our residents, but not at the expense of other road users’ safety or the safety of e-scooter users themselves. This past summer has once again shown that only sufficiently powerful means to regulate speed limits, night-time use, age limits and parking can enable the safe and smooth mobility of all city residents,” says Mayor of Turku Minna Arve.
Juhana Vartiainen, Mayor of Helsinki
Kalervo Kummola, Mayor of Tampere
Minna Arve, Mayor of Turku
