Scooters and micromobility: you can ride in Milan, testing begins

Scooters, segway, hoverboard e single wheels a electric propulsion can circulate a Milano, after the positioning of the signs indicating the roads on which it is possible or not to use them.

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The news, which appeared on the website of the city municipality, highlights not only the installation of the signs, but also the selection of three companies that can manage the sharing service of micromobility in the city, each having a fleet of 750 scooters, therefore “2.250 devices present in the city” as highlighted. Once the procedures with the administration have been completed, the sharing service can take shape, as stated on the occasion.
Among the aspects highlighted also the use of approved vehicles, equipped with lights, speed limiters, in addition to good general conditions that guarantee safety and use. Without forgetting compliance with the rules. Among these, the parking of scooters and other vehicles mentioned is permitted in the stalls dedicated to bicycles or on the side of the road, unless it is permitted, in any case “never in conflict with the provisions of the highway code and always with common sense so that they do not constitute an obstacle or a danger”, is highlighted again. In the Cerchia dei Navigli alone there are over 4.300 stalls and, in the city, there are over 32.000, of which 6.900 outside Municipality 1 near metro stops, then another 3.350 along the cycle paths.

The start

I 130 signs placed along the outer belt of the Milanese city therefore allow this testing scheduled until July 2021, according to the guidelines of the Ministry of Transport established in June. The circulation of these electric vehicles in pedestrian areas is permitted at a speed not exceeding 6 kilometers per hour, considering that the same decree indicates the provision of a limiter. Therefore, speaking only of scooters and Segways, also on cycle and pedestrian paths and paths and in the 30 Zones, limiting the speed up to 20 kilometers per hour, taking the indications again.
Also report exceptions referring to some of these roads or portions of them, based on the 80 signs prohibition roads placed at the entrance. These are routes with river stone paving, preferential lanes also present in areas marked "Zone 30" close to the tramway tracks, unless "they are in a separate roadway", therefore dead-end parking spaces and tunnels pedestrian, as reported.
Use is also envisaged in cycle-pedestrian sections of green areas, only after the approval of the municipal council, on the basis of a “amendment to the green regulations”, has yet been communicated.

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