Transportation
Paris Is Sending the Future of E-Scooters to a Vote
Residents will decide in a referendum whether to oust shared electric scooters from the city, in what could be a global test for micromobility regulation.
Paris will decide whether to ban shared e-scooters citywide.
Photographer: Paulo Amorim/NurPhoto/Getty Images
Parisians are heading to the polls to vote on an unlikely subject: electric scooters.
The public will decide in a referendum on Sunday whether to ban shared e-scooters citywide. The result could make Paris the world’s biggest city to kick rental scooter operators out.