The Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana (FGV) is studying limiting the number of electric scooters authorized to travel on board convoys to a maximum of two. Metrovalencia and the Alacant TRAMand they must be placed in the intermediate wagons, in no case in the first or last, as sources from the public company confirmed to Europa Press.
This proposal will be discussed by the FGV board of directors at its October meeting and it is expected that it could begin to be implemented towards the end of the year, although the company is working on the idea. for a long time.” , due to the fact that other means of transport establish limitations or prohibitions on these personal mobility vehicles.
At that time, explain the same sources, FGV made the decision to continue to authorize access of electric scooters to Metrovalencia and TRAM convoys, even if since last summer, taking into account the “strong presence” detected of these vehicles in convoys, the proposal to limit them was put on the table.
In this regard, although they recognized that the “easy option” would have been a total ban, they considered that the public company chose to regulate their access, given the characteristics of the Metrovalencia network, being “very extended” and linking “many municipalities” and FGV’s commitment to intermodality and the combination of means of transport.
In any case, they clarified that this proposal Under no circumstances will this be “prohibitive” and will not result in sanctions.but will be “limiting” and will appeal to the “co-responsibility” of users. It is also planned to support the application of this measure with a prior information campaign.
However, if this limitation “doesn’t work well”, the company will be willing to adopt a more rigid measure such as a ban. In this way, it would join the decision of other operators like Renfe to prohibit access with electric scooters to all passenger trains, both Cercanías and Regional as well as High Speed and Long Distance, adopted in November of the year last.
