Trafikborgarrådet Daniel Helldén (MP) gathered recently eight elscooter and cykelföretag to a meeting. The reason is that the city of Stockholm wants to business vehicles shall be provided in dedicated parking spaces around the city.
The meeting was attended by the companies that are already established in Sweden and Stockholm – more specifically, Lime, Voi, Blinkee the City and the EU-bike. But also a few potential newcomers, such as the German Tier, Ubers cykeltjänst Jump, Nextbike and Felyx, was in place.
Lime has announced that it will expand its business into the spring and put out more elsparkcyklar. In addition, two additional elscooter companies to establish themselves.
– It seems that the locals use these in quite a large extent. When I have talked with people it seems that they appreciate elsparkcyklarna if they have to travel shorter distances in town, ” says Daniel Helldén.
want to now, Daniel Helldén introduce the so-called ”hotspots”, a form of parking lots where elsparkcyklarna shall be after they have been used. This is to avoid that they be placed a little anywhere, and, where appropriate, also thrown on the sidewalks.
– We discussed that you should not have to ask elsparkcyklarna freely in certain places in the town, for example, in the city where they are moving many people. We also talked about making it a bit cheaper for the users who are set back elsparkcyklarna in the right place, as some sort of incentive, ” says Daniel Helldén of the meeting.
Daniel Helldén believe that the so-called hotspots where the elsparkcyklar can be parked will be appreciated by the locals. Photo: Adam Daver
the Rules for where and how to get hold elsparkcyklar is the same as for ordinary bikes. That is to say, you can park them almost anywhere.
” We want to help operators to regulate this. We can’t formally force them to do things, but if we can help, we can contribute to a good movement in town that I know that the locals want, ” says Daniel Helldén.
Voi, which was the first elscooter company to establish itself in Stockholm, there are already specific approach for each and how to get to park.
– for example, We have introduced the geofence around the zones where you can park the snowmobiles, writes Caroline Hjelm, press officer, in an email.
the Geofence is used to monitor or identify elsparkcyklarnas movements within a defined area.
to these ”hotspots” will contribute to the use of elsparkcyklar becomes more structured and flexible.
” At the major junctions in the town, it is good if you can point out a place where users can leave elsparkcyklarna, it will be better for both the companies and the locals.
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