E-scooters: Trials Debate

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Department: Department for Transport

E-scooters: Trials

Lord Kennedy of Southwark Excerpts
Tuesday 1st April 2025

(2 days, 12 hours ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Brinton Portrait Baroness Brinton (LD)
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My Lords, I am very glad that the Minister raised the issue of poor parking of hire e-scooters and e-bikes. At Aldwych Kingsway, it is now almost impossible to get access to the bus stop, not just if you are in a wheelchair or with a guide dog but for a passenger as well, because there are sometimes as many as 100 of those vehicles parked around them. What powers do the police have to corral—perhaps that is the wrong word—these bikes and scooters and make sure that access to buses continues?