“I do not need skateboards mendacity on the sidewalk, nor an invasion in my metropolis; they don’t assist to maneuver within the course that we should go”“It shouldn’t be a secure or wholesome technique of transport for residents, neither is it sustainable”Catalonia prohibits taking electrical scooters on public transport
In the current setbacks that the scooter has suffered in our nation, with the ban on taking them on public transport in Catalonia since yesterday, an ally has emerged in Valladolid. It is nothing lower than the mayor of Pucelano, Óscar Puente. The councilor affirmed on the VII Meeting of Cities held in stated metropolis that “I declare myself not a buddy of the scooter. Neither enemy, however no-friend. What’s extra, in Valladolid there aren’t any scooter rental firms as a result of its mayor has not needed to”. Some controversial statements that he then supported for 4 causes.
The mayor assures that they aren’t sustainable. He started by saying that “the very first thing we must analyze is the place your customers come from. It is a really current medium and those that get on the scooter have beforehand gotten off someplace. That is to say, they’ve gotten out of the automobile, the bus, the bicycle, they’ve stopped strolling… And I’ve many doubts that out of each 100 scooter customers, 4 or 5 have gotten out of the automobile. Therefore, is the skateboard an ally of sustainable mobility? From my standpoint, no,” he says.
He considers that they will trigger the “smash of public transport”. Because if the scooter person “will get off the bus” it creates an issue within the seek for equality in mobility. If the youngest customers get off the bus and cease paying, they don’t contribute to the upkeep of a way of transport that’s already poor in itself.” Puente believes that they’re leaving “public transport for older and extra susceptible folks.” which makes it economically unsustainable “We left public transport at some extent of adverse sustainability. There is already a beginning financial cause”.
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The scooter “encourages a sedentary way of life”
Óscar Puente assures that though it could not look like it, the electrical scooter encourages a sedentary way of life. “We want residents to stroll, pedal, and transport themselves actively. With the scooter, the person picks it up on the door of his home and leaves it on the door of his vacation spot”. the place the place the automobile is parked. It is clear that it isn’t a wholesome technique of transport”.
He additionally provides that it’s an “unsafe” medium. Leaves the person susceptible to different autos. “Is it secure? Well, within the present circumstances it appears to me that it isn’t. Its customers go clear, generally with poor visibility, with out necessary safety (helmet) no less than for now and driving on the roads the place visitors automobiles. But it additionally will get on the sidewalks”.
At least it would not pollute.
In quick, the mayor considers that the scooter “shouldn’t be a secure, wholesome technique of transport, neither is it sustainable. It is true that it isn’t polluting both. But that shouldn’t be the one attribute to be totally integrated into the variety of modes of transport in our nation. I brazenly declare myself not a buddy of the skateboard. I’m not going to say enemy, which is a time period that sounds ugly, however sure, not buddy. In reality, you’ll not see any skateboard rental firm in Valladolid. And there is not as a result of the mayor did not need to. I do not need skateboards mendacity on the sidewalks, I do not need a skateboard invasion in my metropolis as a result of I feel they do not assist us transfer within the course we have to go.”
And lastly, he ended up joking about “this” minimize “of the skateboard, which I hope will flow into in world networks”.