In Paris, the days of the shared electric scooter are numbered. “On September 1 there will no longer be self-service scooters in Paris,” declared the mayor of the French capital, Anne Hidalgo, this Sunday night.

He 89% of Parisians who have participated, has voted to ban them. The decision has been consulted in a non-binding referendum, which the consistory does take as a reference. A vote with which the debate around them is settled, but which creates controversy.

Ramón Ledesma, road safety advisor, does not believe that it is the appropriate way to manage a public problem. In the streets of many Spanish cities, plagued with electric scooters available for rent, there is also a debate about whether it is a safe form of mobility.

The issue lies, for many, in the user training and in the unification of regulations. Although there are already issues regulated at the national level, others remain in the hands of each city council. For example, helmet use.

Some common rules, they consider, would help citizens to have more confidence in a modern, light and, above all, sustainable form of mobility.