Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Rental e-scooters to be trialled in London from June
In my recent post about e-scooter rules, I mentioned that the nationwide e-scooter trial is soon to reach London.
It's now been announced that the trials will start here in June.
The e-scooters will have a maximum speed of 12.5mph (below the 15mph limit set by the Department for Transport) and be limited for use in selected areas.
They will be legal to use in bicycle lanes and on roads, where users of private e-scooters remain banned. Riders will be required to take an online safety course before their first hire.
Dott, Lime and Tier will carry out the 12-month pilot scheme from 7 June.
London's scheme will initially be restricted to six boroughs: Tower Hamlets, Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, Richmond, City of London and Kensington and Chelsea.
Geo-fencing technology will be used to prevent e-scooters being used outside these areas.
So, it will remain the case for the immediate future, that if you see an e-scooter being used in a public place in Haringey, or any of the neighbouring boroughs, it's not being used legally.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Same operators who were chosen in Paris last year. Hopefully that means we’ll avoid the problems they had there when it was a free for all
https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/23/21335611/paris-electric-scooter-...
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Permalink Reply by Philip on
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Too little too late. It's perfectly legal to SELL e scooters but illegal ride them! Apart from a fixed penalty fine you can be fined up to a £1000 for improper use and get points on your license! Just at the moment the cops are too busy but we can expect a clampdown eventually.
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Permalink Reply by Bob Ruggles on
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What happens if users do not have a Riders / Drivers license ?
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As I understand it, your driving record is separate from your license, so you can in fact get points even if you have no license. They would become relevant if you then applied for one later.
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E-scooters and non-legal e-bikes are now on the long, long list of law infringements that happen but are not able to be pursued even at the 0.1% level - speeding, illegally loud car exhausts, cyclists on pavements/wrong way on one-way roads/through red lights - and that's just a few traffic offences.
There has never been sufficient police funding to clamp down (i.e. prevent, city-wide) such actions. Occasional brief campaigns happen, such as the one on cyclists a couple of years ago including at Manor House (red lights, working bike lights, basic stuff) following, I think, a pedestrian's death at the wheels of a cyclist.
Then there's drug dealing, fly-tipping, spitting and - well, how long have I got - scroll back through HoL... Haringey does take action on the last two to some extent, to be fair to them.
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'E-scooters: Britain's New Road Rage?'. ITV **tonight** 1930, and after on ITVHub. [Thu 20 May]. Sorry for the short notice.
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"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
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Have seen reports in Standard and Metro, growing numbers used in crime
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