Jan says her e-scooter saves her more than an hour of travel time a day compared to just using public transport, but she says she's put it aside since the “crackdown”.
Melburnians who have bought their own e-scooters as a climate-friendly alternative to driving fear they will remain illegal because of bad behaviour by people using inner-city scooter hire schemes.
The 59-year-old said the scooter enabled her to take a train to Clifton Hill and then scoot the last three kilometres along a bike path, saving more than an hour of travel time a day compared to just using public transport. Antoine Pace, 59, a lawyer who lives in East Brighton, said he also stopped riding his scooter to his CBD office after a police officer pulled him over and informed him it was illegal. He said he hoped to be able to use it again soon to replace his car on short trips.
Hussein Dia, a professor of future urban mobility at Swinburne University, said it was clear the rules in place for Melbourne’s e-scooter trial were not being followed or enforced. But the potential benefits of the new technology made it worth persisting with, while developing ways to safely integrate them into the transport system.
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