Self-Service Scooters are the Next Form of Communal Transportation in Paris?

The Parisian family of environmentally-friendly vehicles could very well be enlarged! After the famous Vélib’, self-service bikes, and Autolib’, public electric car sharing service, Scootlib’ is set to be the next to enlarge the ranks of alternatives for getting around the capital. Zoom with Scootlib’, Paris’ self-service scooters!

Self-Service Scooters

The City of Paris has expressed the desire to make it so that in several years, residents of the capital largely abandon their individual means of transport to circulate solely with those vehicles owned by the city. Following Velib’ and Autolib,’ enter Scootlib’. In order to meet their goal, what better than to propose the rental of the three types of vehicles most often used on the roads: bikes, cars, and scooters!

Self-service stations of electric scooters already exist in two cities: San Francisco and Barcelona. In the Californian city, one hundred scooters have taken to the roads since September 2012, and 250 are parked in the seven neighborhoods of the Catalan capital since May 2013. But the Parisian project is even more ambitious: Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris, wants 3,000 to 5,000 scooters, spread out in 700 stations across the city.

The clientele targeted by Scootlib’: Teens and young working adults

The public targeted by the Scootlib’ initiative is essentially youth and young working adults, between 14 -16 years old and 35-40 years old respectively. These are the citizens who own a motorized scooter or who get around in the city using Velib’ or the metro. And the desire to use motorized scooters is increasing. It is important to note that 150,000 motorized two-wheelers currently circulate every day in Paris, even though there are only 80,000 parking places that can accommodate them. Scootlib’ could therefore be a good solution in response to this problem. This is especially true considering one particular burning issue circulating the news: the end of tolerance for sidewalk parking, which was voted by the Council of Paris on Dec. 17, 2013. ..................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://sustainablecitiescollective.com/global-site-plans-grid/322306/self-service-scooters-are-next-form-communal-transportation-paris