Stricter Scooter Rules Hit Estepona

Estepona Council has initiated nan process to modulate nan usage of electrical scooters and different Personal Mobility Vehicles (PMVs) by drafting a municipal bylaw, while besides installing circumstantial signage on nan seafront promenade and awesome shopping streets, nan assembly person precocious announced.

The action comes successful consequence to nan accelerated emergence successful PMV usage and hopes to amended roadworthy and pedestrian information and create a harmonious coexistence among scooter users, pedestrians, and centrifugal vehicles. The strategy is said to beryllium portion of and successful statement pinch nan council’s committedness to sustainable mobility. The projected bylaw, which draws connected nan wide regulations of nan Spanish Traffic Authority (DGT), will reside already existing rules, including bans connected riding scooters connected pedestrian pavements aliases successful municipality underpasses, wearing headphones, giving “backies” aliases utilizing mobile phones while riding.

The assembly reminded residents of nan municipality that nan caller Spanish Traffic Law mandates helmet usage for electrical scooter riders and that nan depletion of intoxicant aliases narcotics carries nan aforesaid fines arsenic for erstwhile driving a car, measures that will beryllium further elaborate successful nan forthcoming municipal ordinance. The draught regulation, which must beryllium approved successful nan Town Council plenary convention and acquisition nationalist consultation.

In parallel, signs person been installed on nan seafront promenade and cardinal shopping streets, specified arsenic Terraza and Real, to punctual scooter riders of nan DGT’s prohibition connected PMV usage successful pedestrian zones. These areas were chosen owed to their precocious pedestrian traffic, peculiarly astatine weekends and during vacation periods. The assembly has stressed that nan section constabulary will strictly enforce penalties for non-compliance, arsenic stipulated by DGT regulations.