Now you will no longer be able to park electric scooter bikes anywhere in the city center. The places in question include the Cathedral, all quays along the canal and the garden association.

- We don't want people to park their bikes everywhere. Now we have started to sign the agreements with the companies. All companies have started working on this now. On the one hand, they do not show the bikes there, then the technology has made it impossible to park their bikes there, says Malin Månsson, bicycle planning at the traffic office.

Payment is ticking

She explains that the technology should prevent users from ending their journey in the marked places. If you do, the payment will continue to tick.

- In the apps, the user should see which areas you cannot finish your trip. The agreement with the companies is valid until now. Then you will be speeding to six kilometers per hour in some areas, says Malin Månsson.

It is also controlled by technology. It will be about streets where a lot of people are moving. In the future, the City of Gothenburg will evaluate how the agreement works.

- We haven't decided exactly when to do an evaluation. Six months is usually a reasonable time, but if problems arise, we must make an evaluation earlier.

See if the companies follow up

Parking zones will also be marked out of the city but there is no compulsion to use these.

If electric scooters are still parked in the areas where they are not allowed, what will the municipality do?

- Then it is quite reasonable that we do some kind of control. We also get to look at the views that come in if there are bicycles in places where they are not allowed to stand. Then we can check that the companies follow up on what we have agreed on, says Malin Månsson.