The problem of electric scooters in Orihuela Costa continues to be a hot topic. This issue has led to a recent meeting between the Council and the Local Police to try to regulate the situation and to avoid difficulties generated by their use on public roads, due to the chaos they often cause on pavements with pedestrians and on roads with traffic.
Thus, in the last few days, more than a hundred of these personal mobility vehicles have been confiscated from unlicensed operators, by police agents and deposited at the Orihuela Costa Emergency Centre, awaiting a decision. Municipal sources have confirmed that electric scooters can still be used, however, only by those companies that have been authorised to do so, for a period of three months.
The authorised companies are those that requested the extension, although it is understood that ‘Hoppy’ made a mistake in its request that is now being corrected. It was for this reason that “the scooters were removed until everything was in order.”
Orihuela Council points out that the use of scooters is regulated in the mobility ordinance, for which there is an exclusive section.
The number of electric scooters on the streets of Orihuela Costa is growing by the week, where they often appear in a disorderly fashion on any street corner or are abandoned to their fate on the pavement or the road by users.
These personal mobility vehicles are very attractive to tourists, as they allow them to travel around the urbanisations in a comfortable, economical and sustainable way.
To a large extent, many of these problems, the reckless driving and their abandonment, depend on the good will of the user, their public responsibility and their civic attitude, something that will have to be improved on if they are to be accepted by the public as a means of transport of the future, because they are sustainable, economical and practical, as well as being a beneficial service in an area like the coast, which has an acute a lack of transport services, taxis and buses.
