Malta to ban rented e-scooters from March

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VALLETTA - Malta will ban all rental e-scooters from March 1 because of the inconvenience they cause pedestrians, the Transport Ministry said in a surprise announcement on Friday."E-scooter violations are so rife that even doubling the number of enforcement officers overnight would not have solved the issue," he said at a press event.

The decision makes Malta the first European country to ban rental scooters, although the French capital Paris took a similar decision in September after holding a referendum. Motorists, meanwhile, told media organisations that scooters tended to appear out of nowhere, sometimes driving wrong way. Several major accidents were reported.

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