The City of Darwin wants to improve infrastructure, including adding more bike lines, electric charging stations, and e-scooter parking spots across the city to make it easier for people to use e-scooters to commute.
abc.net.au/news/nt-escooter-changes-darwin-city-neuron/102488272The City of Darwin wants e-scooters to be ridden in bike paths and on roads, instead of on footpaths, as the council looks to ensure the devices play a key part in Darwin's transport scene into the future.
Ms Percy said some providers now had in-app features that were able to check if riders had been drinking.She said some scooters also had technology to detect if pedestrians were nearby and could reduce their speed accordingly, plus there were smaller scooters also available that would stop two people from sharing one.
"We'd really love the legislation to be changed to allow scooters to be on roads, as well as in bike lines, and off the footpaths."Calls for pedestrian safety to be protected The study found about half of the injured riders were intoxicated, with average blood alcohol content of 0.18 per cent, despite it being illegal to ride an e-scooter drunk.
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