Ladies and gentlemen, start your trottinettes
Ladies and gentlemen, start your trottinettes. Electric scooters and other mobility devices are now legal on Quebec roads.
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Ladies and gentlemen, start your trottinettes. Electric scooters and other mobility devices are now legal on Quebec roads.
Electric scooters, which were previously banned on public roads in Quebec, will now be legalized, according to an announcement made by the province's transport minister, Geneviève Guilbault, on Thursday.
A three-year pilot project, set to kick off on July 20, will regulate the use of motorized personal transport devices (MPTDs), such as electric scooters. The initiative aims to “evaluate a safe integration of these devices into road traffic and to determine if changes to the Highway Safety Code are necessary,” indicated the Ministère des Transports et de la Mobilité durable in a press release issued Thursday afternoon.
The new legislation is an amendment to Quebec's Highway Safety Code, providing a legal framework for all electric motorized vehicles.
Zipping down sidewalks, bike paths, through heavy traffic and ridden by folks of all ages: Apart from electric hoverboards, unicycles and skateboards, electric scooters (trottinettes) are fun, fast, easy to