Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Construction, Housing and Communal Services, Alexander Aksenenko, proposed on Friday, April 24, that the country’s Ministry of Transport ban minors from using personal mobility devices (PIMs), including electric scooters.
– In order to ensure the safety of all road users, especially in pedestrian areas, on sidewalks, in adjacent areas and within complexes, (it is proposed – almost. “VM”) Imposing a complete ban on the use of personal mobility aids by minors,” reads the text of the letter addressed to the administration.
In addition, the parliamentarian proposed to oblige electric scooter rental operators to allow their rental only after verifying their age through the Gosuslugi portal, creating a federal SIM registry, placing all such devices in state registration and assigning license plates to them, reports said. TASS.
On April 20, the administration of the Raminsky municipal district of the Moscow region suspended the rental of electric scooters due to systematic violations of parking rules, lack of control by operators and threat to pedestrian safety on city sidewalks.