The current trial of Voi e-scooters is set to run until May 2024
A Northamptonshire council has been accused of pushing concerns about e-scooters “into the long grass” after a motion to halt any extensions of trials in the area was shot down. Councillor Emma Roberts called for West Northamptonshire Council to recognise the dangers the e-scooters caused in the county and to reevaluate the scheme before it renews.
“I’m hugely disappointed that that’s the decision you’ve chosen to make tonight because you could absolutely rubber-stamp us to start work on this today. This is you not wanting to say that we have got this wrong.” Other concerns that the opposition raised were the policing of underage and drink-driver users, poor parking of e-scooters on public pathways, and the effectiveness of Voi's complaints procedure and their ability to identify who is riding their scooters at any given time. Voi was previously fined £726 after failing to hand over information to Northamptonshire Police in January 2023.
Labour councillor Zoe Smith said: "This is a full council chamber. We cannot keep dodging questions that we don’t want to answer by sending them off to scrutiny. It’s cowardly - let’s be openly and publicly accountable in this chamber.”
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