{"id":155574,"date":"2023-01-16T12:23:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T18:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/paris-to-hold-vote-on-shared-scooters"},"modified":"2023-01-16T12:23:26","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T18:23:26","slug":"paris-to-hold-vote-on-shared-scooters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/paris-to-hold-vote-on-shared-scooters","title":{"rendered":"Paris to hold vote on shared scooters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/paris-to-hold-vote-on-shared-scooters2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This weekend, Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leparisien.fr\/politique\/anne-hidalgo-face-a-nos-lecteurs-quon-arrete-les-trottinettes-electriques-en-libre-service-dans-paris-14-01-2023-NW4SISO7TRAXJFRL53O6UME3KQ.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told Le Parisien<\/a> that Parisians will get to vote whether they want to ban free-floating electric scooters or not. As <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/01\/13\/scooters-in-paris-are-at-a-crossroad-and-it-could-shape-the-future-of-micromobility\/\">I explained last week<\/a>, Dott, Lime and Tier, the three scooter companies currently operating in the city, have operating licenses that are set to expire on March 23rd, 2023. And the fate of those services could have wide implications across the micromobility sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Parisians want to own their own scooter, there\u2019s no issue. But we have a real issue with free-floating scooters. It\u2019s not climate-friendly. Employees working for these companies are not properly treated,\u201d Mayor of Paris told Le Parisien.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why I\u2019m going to ask a question to Parisians in a vote that is going to take place on Sunday, April 2nd so that I can understand what they want,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo told Le Parisien that Parisians will get to vote whether they want to ban free-floating electric scooters or not. As I explained last week, Dott, Lime and Tier, the three scooter companies currently operating in the city, have operating licenses that are set to expire on March 23rd, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}