Many Stockholmers like the electric scooters, but many are also critical of how they are driven and how they are parked - or just thrown away. Yesterday, the Social Democrats' opposition mayor Jan Valeskog went out and wanted to see that the city takes more responsibility for removing mis-parked electric scooters.
Today, the traffic citizen council Daniel Helldén (MP) at DN Debate writes that he believes that acceptance for the electric scooters would increase with more regulations.
“But laws and regulations need to be stepped up. Today, an individual municipality does not have the opportunity to decide on new types of traffic. It is the commercial players who have the power, ”Helldén writes.
According to Helldén, the legislation and the traffic regulation should be amended. Today, electric scooters are defined as bicycles, but if it were a vehicle of their own, for example, one could impose a parking ban for electric scooters without having to impose a parking ban for bicycles.
Electric scooters are also counted as pedestrians when driven in walking speed. Therefore, municipalities cannot regulate that electric scooters may only be driven on bicycle lanes and not on sidewalks and walkways, writes Helldén, who also wants the city to be able to require permission from the actors who want to exhibit electric scooters on the city's streets.