After Paris banned electric scooters, something surprising happened in the city
After Paris banned electric scooters, something surprising happened in the city
Paris banned shared electric scooters in the city earlier this year, and a new study has shown that there may have been unintended results.
OP's username is quite fitting here lol.
I would've done the same 🤷♂️ people probably just want to get from A to B quickly and cheaply. A car in a city like Paris is neither of those
As a bonus though, at least there's more people getting some exercise compared to practically none on the scooter
Bicycle > Scooter > Car
a new study has shown that the effect may have bolstered dockless bike-sharing instead.
Courtesy of ChatGPT:
Paris banned shared electric scooters, expecting a return to larger vehicles. Surprisingly, this led to a massive increase in dockless bike-sharing. September 2022’s 750,000 dockless bike trips surged to nearly 2 million by September 2023. This shift suggests Parisians still prefer shared mobility, now choosing bikes over scooters. The future impact of this trend on Parisian transport remains to be seen.
Imagine what will happen after the cars are banned. Wet dream.
The results seem to show that despite Paris banning shared electric scooters, Parisians still seek out and use shared mobility devices. Now, they appear to have merely shifted to shared bikes instead of shared scooters.
Friendly reminder that correlation is not causation.
From what I remember from reading studies about usage patterns of shared scooter they seemed to be replacing mostly short walks and public transport trips, and rarely car usage (only short taxi trips IIRC). Also usage patterns are mostly for leisure and fun, and rarely commuting.
And I don’t see why someone who’s too lazy to walk or sit on a tram would use a bike now. I mean, sure, some people, but definitely not all of them.
Also, there were 15k scooters, and the number of bike rides per month exploded by at least 1 million, which would mean that every single scooter was used at least two times every day. That doesn’t feel plausible.
On the other hand, Paris is investing heavily in bike infra, so my guess would be some major player/s just dropped massive amounts of shared bikes and people who did not use them before are now using them. Could be anyone, though. Maybe 15 k people stopped using a car and are now commuting by bike twice a day… 🤷♀️
I don't really see how that's surprising, but sure