• Madrid The Madrid City Council multiplies by four the fines for parking badly on the sidewalks scooters, bikes and shared motorcycles in 2021

The new

Sustainable Mobility Ordinance

that the

Madrid City Council

plans to approve this summer will include among its novelties the mandatory use of helmets to drive bicycles and scooters to persons under 18 years of age, which implies extending its use to people aged 16 and 17 .

This has been advanced this Monday

20 minutes

and sources from the municipal area of ​​Environment and Mobility have confirmed it to Efe, which add that it will also be mandatory to use the approved helmet for

riders

who distribute food and goods on bicycles or personal mobility vehicles ( VMP).

The City Council explains that the growing use of bicycles in the capital "has also caused an increase in accidents in this means of transport", which went from 340 in 2010 to 921 in 2020.

For this reason, the new norm will emphasize "the improvement of road safety" in order to "achieve road accidents", focusing on "the most vulnerable groups", such as pedestrians and cyclists.

In addition, the Consistory recalls that the ordinance will force bicycles and scooters to park at specific anchors, most of them located on the road.

Madrid currently has 1,250 anchors distributed throughout the city, with four or five forks for bike racks, and "before the end of July", says the City Council, "306 new forks will be placed for bicycle parking, starting their installation in fifteen days", and so there will be capacity to park 610 more bikes.

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