Europe 1 with AFP 3:17 p.m., November 15, 2021

Self-service scooters are now limited to 10 km / h in 700 areas of Paris, especially around the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower, the three operators in the capital announced on Monday.

A decision taken without consultation with the city hall of the capital, which considers the measure still "insufficient".

Self-service scooters are now limited to 10 km / h in 700 areas of Paris, especially around the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower, the three operators present in the capital (Dott, Tier and Lime) announced on Monday.

"These areas are concentrated around places with strong pedestrian pressure such as parks, gardens, streets with schools, town halls, places of worship, pedestrian streets or very commercial streets," the operators said in a statement.

Self-service scooters, geolocated in real time, will see their speed drop from 20 km / h to 10 km / h when they enter these areas.

"A first step largely insufficient", comments the town hall

At the end of June, after the death of a 32-year-old Italian woman, hit by an electric scooter on a pedestrian alley, the Paris town hall threatened the three private operators not to renew their contract if they did not make progress on the road. speed limit and parking. David Belliard, the deputy (EELV) of the mayor PS Anne Hidalgo, in charge in particular of transport, again emitted this possibility Monday, qualifying the 700 zones announced as "largely insufficient first step".

"The operators have taken the initiative" of these areas, commented David Belliard.

This card is a "first step with a certain number of proposals which need to be enriched with the municipality", underlined the deputy, regretting in particular the absence of the quays of the Saint-Martin canal and the lower quays of the Seine. in the operators map.

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Soon a definitive map of the areas concerned

The town hall, which was not consulted by the operators, is working at the same time "with the district town halls so that they make us go back to the 'slow zones' that they wish" to see established and which must be transmitted to operators, said David Belliard.

The final map of these speed-limited zones desired by the town hall should be known within a few weeks.

Operators have announced a few other measures since June.

For example, users must now send a photo of their scooter parked in the locations provided for this purpose.

In addition to their usual teams, the operators have also set up a common patrol of 12 people who reposition the scooters on these locations.