Port Macquarie local Steve Lyons has been campaigning to legalise the use of electric skateboards as mobility aids for people living with disability, and the NSW government has responded.
Steve Lyons has helped legalise the use of electric skateboards as mobility aids in NSW.abc.net.au/news/nsw-law-change-electric-skateboard-disability-mobility-aid/102004664After years of using an electric skateboard illegally, Port Macquarie man Steve Lyons will soon be able to ride one down his main street without fear of being fined.
"Every time I took the skateboard out to go on a footpath or a shopping centre I was technically breaking the law," he said.Prior to the reform, electric skateboards were not allowed on all public roads and paths.
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