Will banning scooters help pedestrians?
The Ministry of Transportation submitted for public discussion a draft of amendments to the traffic rules, according to which it may soon be prohibited for couriers to cross the sidewalk on electric scooters and electric bicycles. The rules will go into effect in the spring of 2027.
However, Mikhail Blinkin, a member of the government committee for ensuring road safety, doubts the simplicity of the solution to the issue. According to him, there are no signs by which it is possible to distinguish between a courier and the owner of an electric bicycle with its own box on the trunk.