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A ban on rental electric scooters has come into effect in Paris in response to a rising number of people being injured and killed in the French capital.

As a cyclist of the traditional variety, I am more than a little peeved by the way electric “personal vehicles” like e-scooters are crowding out our space.

Forty years campaigning for cycle paths, only to be squeezed to the side by a new kind of motorised transport - that gets one’s goat.

Nor do I take kindly to what - as a father of young children - I have in recent years witnessed all too regularly: scooters powering down the pavement and requiring urgent avoidance.

If I had my way, they would never have been invented, and today the population would be biking around the streets of Paris like it was Amsterdam in the '70s - using legs, not fingers on a button.

Seemingly forgetting that it was she herself who introduced on-street hiring in 2018, she became overnight the voice of the antis - all those people who find scooters profoundly annoying.

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