Bergen has set up around 150 new no-ride zones for rental e-scooters at schools, kindergartens and playgrounds. The zones work by the motor gradually shutting off if you ride into one, so the vehicle stops itself rather than a sign asking the rider to stop. The city government had them in place before the school year began, at every municipal school and kindergarten inside the rental operators’ coverage area, and announced it in press release number 27 on 21 August.
A large majority in the city assembly had asked for the ban back in June. “E-scooters have a place in our city, but this is a sensible tightening,” says Eivind Nævdal-Bolstad, the city commissioner for urban development. The limit of the method sits inside the method: privately owned scooters cannot be regulated digitally this way, so the rule only reaches the rented ones. The city’s environment agency is working on further zones at municipal playgrounds.
So…:
Where could a rule sit in the machine instead of on a sign?
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