The spokesperson for Más Madrid at the City Hall, Rita Maestre, proposed include electric scooters under the aegis of the Municipal Transport Company (EMT) provide a public service like that of the bicimad.
Maestre defended in an interview with Europa Press that scooters are becoming “a further step in the city’s sustainable mobility“, once the government of José Luis Martínez-Almeida announced the revocation of concessions to private operatorswhich will come into force next October.
“Six months ago, I said that what the left likes is to ban,” while the mayor of ParisAnne Hidalgo, Rental scooters kicked out of city following the result of a citizen consultation. “And what does he do now? “Ban the scooters himself” The opposition leader compared.
But Madrid has already warned Almeida of the consequences of private concessions.It was a bad idea that didn’t work in any city.. And yet, the delegate for Urban Planning, Environment and Mobility, Borja Carabante, went there to take a photo with the different companies,” criticized the mayor.
Master He also mentioned the scooter competition launched by the municipality.Maestre believes that there are “indications, if not of irregularities, at least of procedures that were not very well conducted, for which several other companies have even considered appealing.”
“The idea was bad, it went wrong, surprise. And what we lost was time along the way. And money too,” he said.The alternative proposed by Más Madrid is that “a single company” manages the electric scooters. In addition, they advocate including them “in the network of the Madrid public system, which is included in the EMT and which includes bicimad.”
With that would put an end to the “problems of disorder, of every man for himself”“, of the law of the jungle of those years and which caused many mobility problems to, finally, be a fiasco,” he concluded by declaring.
