Parisians vote on banning e-scooters from French capital

Paris mayor, Anne Hidalgo, supports ban after three people died and 459 were injured in e-scooter accidents during 2022

Parisians are voting on Sunday on whether to rid the streets of the French capital of electric scooters, although some say the city’s leaders ought to be focusing on more pressing issues.

Paris was a pioneer when it introduced e-scooters, or trottinettes, in 2018 as the city’s authorities sought to promote non-polluting forms of urban transport.