TNW reports that the referendum from April of this year called voters to choose if they want e-scooters to still be available for rent or not and nearly 90% said they want scooters out of the streets.

Now, the mayor of the city, Anne Hidalgo, applied the ban on all rental scooters from the three main operators, Tier, Dott and Lime. They have until the end of September 1st to remove around 15.000 e-scooters from the city's streets, while e-bike rental services aren't affected by this measure.

After being one of the early adopters of rental e-scooters back in 2018, Paris soon discovered that city dwellers and tourists aren't very kind when it comes to riding these vehicles carefully and with respect to others. Also, due to the fact that they were dockless meant that everybody "abandoned" the scooters wherever they desired, contributing to the escalating chaos.

Madrid, Copenhagen and some regions in the Netherlands also banned or imposed heavy restrictions on e-scooters, following chaotic behavior from those who rented them. Other European cities, however, are extending their network of e-scooters as an ecological way to travel across the city.

"Lyon recently committed to a four-year contract for e-scooters, London has extended their trial by a further three years, and Madrid has committed to a three-year contract following a tender", a Dott spokesperson told TNW.

Whether Paris' decision to ban e-scooters is temporary or not remains to be seen, but we could see more European municipalities impose restrictions or bans on this mean of transport, as it sparks chaos across the continent.