A large number of udlejningsløbehjul in Copenhagen end their days at the bottom of the sea.
In just four days, By & Havn fished 144 electric scooters up from the Harbour of Copenhagen, where the annual cleanup of trash and junk going on over a period of two weeks.
Alone Monday has divers total 38 scooters up of the port at Fisketorvet, Islands Brygge and Nyhavn.
– How they ended up there, is not to know. But in any case we can see that the result is that we spend time to get them up again, says Anne Skovbro, managing director of cph City & Port development, to TV2 Lorry.
Last year bjergede divers just ten electric scooters from various rental companies up from the Harbour.
part of the explanation for this is that løbehjulene had just come on the street a few months before last year’s havneoprensning, while the by this cleanup has been in circulation for a whole year.
The a lot more scooters in the harbour is a sad increase, saith the Eric André, who is the country manager for the company Voi, which has several hundred electric scooters for hire and rental in circulation on the streets of copenhagen.
– Vandalism is a problem for us. It was, however, a major problem in the start-up, where we saw that many of our scooters were destroyed. But it is just sad that there are some people who do not have respect for others ‘ things, says Eric André to TV2 Lorry.
He explains that the high numbers come behind him, but that the company is aware of the problem. Among other things, the Voi is a person employed to try to fish the company’s electric scooters up by the port. Sometimes succeed, but often end up trying in vain.
– It is not good for our business when this kind of thing happens, for the batteries and the scooters don’t belong in the water, and we will do everything we can in order for it not to happen, says Eric André.
Frank Jensen (S), who is the lord mayor of the Copenhagen Municipality, of regret that so many electric scooters to end up in the water, where many like to bathe in the summer.
– It is something worse mess, that you dump the stuff down in our port, whether it is bicycles or scooters. By løbehjulene we can see who the owners are, and it is the landlords of them. They must of course take responsibility for their scooters when they make them in the city, says Frank Jensen to TV2 Lorry.
A particular source of irritation is it for Frank Jensen, to the many scooters, as the City & Harbour fishing, you will be allowed to stand on the City & Port depot without being picked up.
– It should not be like this. Løbehjulsudlejerne must of course take responsibility for the here scooters, and them they must come and fetch when they are picked up, he says.
Any good idea for how the many scooters on the bottom of the port can be avoided, Frank Jensen, however, is not. It is difficult to avoid, that someone takes a pair of roller skates and throw it in the harbor, he points out.
At Voi does, however, have an idea for how to address the problem.
– We can not defend ourselves against people who set out to vandalize, ” says Eric André, country manager for Voi in Denmark, and continues:
– But I can tell you that we are working on a solution where you can not use løbehjulene in some zones, as for example is close to the water. On the way we can help to ensure that fewer scooters end up in the water, says Eric André, country manager for Voi in Denmark.
Voi is just one of several firms which have electric scooters for rent set around in Copenhagen. Among other landlords may include Tier, Lime, and Circ.
The electric scooters have been legal on the bike paths since 17. January of last year. In June of the same year, the city of Copenhagen, however, to place a ceiling of 200 electric scooters and 200 electric bicycles in Copenhagen’s Inner City.
however, It is far from the only electric scooters and bikes, byudviklingsselskabet City & Harbour of the fishing up of the harbour over the two weeks, where the clean-up going on.
With the help of the barge, Tangloppen, one subject was fished up after the other in the course of the 14 days, where the divers checks the Port of Copenhagen to get to grips with the garbage.
the Divers have enough to do, it seems, for so far there already been registered 476 objects, and it is not anything that is on the bottom.
Among the interesting lost property can include objects such as large hoardings and a six-metre-long ladder, and then there is once again someone who has forgotten a dildo in the port.
It is also the third year in a row that cph City & Port fishing a dildo up from the water.
On TV2 lorry’s website you can see an inventory of items, which have been picked up from the port.
