Marbella To Crackdown On Electric Scooters

Marbella Council has announced stricter regulations for bicycles and individual mobility vehicles (PMVs), specified arsenic electrical scooters, on nan town’s promenade, successful ray of an summation successful accidents involving pedestrians, particularly children.

The caller measures, person been elaborate successful a nationalist decree issued connected Monday, August 4, travel an earlier impermanent regularisation introduced successful precocious June, which grounded to curb nan complaint of accidents. Effective instantly and lasting until September 30, nan decree suspends nan usage of bicycles and PMVs connected marble and tiled sections of nan promenade, owed to their slipperiness, specifically from Puerto La Bajadilla to nan Marbell Centre, from nan Fontanilla roundabout to nan commencement of nan albero path, from Río Verde to Avenida Naciones Unidas successful Puerto Banús, and on nan San Pedro promenade. However, albero (sand) paths and woody pedestrian walkways are exempt from nan ban.

The assembly has taken statement of a “big summation successful incidents” betwixt pedestrians, cyclists, and PMV users successful July 2025, which has prompted nan tightened rules to “prevent further accidents and guarantee pedestrian information astatine each times.” The decree besides makes reference to existing nationalist and municipal regulations governing nan usage of bicycles and PMVs successful nationalist spaces.

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