Because the Municipality of Milan crashes the scooters of Bird, Circ and Helbiz
Bird, Circ and Helbiz will have to collect the scooters circulating in Milan because they have not respected the rules. Here are details and controversies
The Bird, Circ and Helbiz scooter race in Milan stops. The Lombard capital, in recent days, has notified the three operators of shared electric scooters the revocation of the authorization to operate in the territory.
Bird, Circ and Helbiz are accused of repeated irregularities. All the details.
THE SUSPENSION OF ACTIVITIES
Let's start with the facts. Bird, a micro – mobility company based in California founded in 2007, Circ, born in August 2018 in Germany from an idea of Lukasz Gadowski, one of the founders of Delivery Hero, and Helbiz, an intra-urban transport company founded by the Italian Salvatore Palella in 2015, based in New York City, will have to stop sharing activities of scooters in the Municipality of Milan.
STOP BY NOVEMBER 15th
Bird, Circ and Helbiz are obliged to " collect the vehicles by mid-November", according to the website of the Municipality of Milan.
THE ACCUSATIONS
The stop to operate comes due to "various irregularities detected" and "recurrence of conduct that does not comply with the rules defined in the public notices".
IRREGULARITIES
In particular, the Municipality of Milan still writes, “anomalies have been found on the speed and parking moderation system”. Translated: the scooters of the three companies drive too fast in pedestrian areas, where they cannot exceed 6 km / h, or are parked in unsuitable and often obstructive areas.
CONTINUOUS MONITORING
"Since the beginning of the experimentation of scooter sharing, the Municipality has started a constant monitoring of the vehicles made available to citizens and compliance with the rules defined in the public notice: checks that are added to the regular sanctioning activity carried out by the local Police for the compliance with the rules of the Highway Code ”, added the Municipality of Milan.
THE OTHER OPERATORS
No more sharing scooters on the streets of the Lombard capital, then? Of course not. The Municipality of Milan, in recent months, has authorized several and numerous companies to operate in the local area: Bit, Dott, Lime, Voi and Wind offer up to 750 scooters each.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/smartcity/perche-il-comune-di-milano-tampona-i-monopattini-di-bird-circ-e-helbiz/ on Sat, 14 Nov 2020 07:01:35 +0000.