Member

These amendments are complementary and carefully targeted. Amendment 416H would ensure that operators pay for the public realm impacts of their fleets, which are scattered all over the pavements, and that they are financially incentivised to prevent clutter through better systems and infrastructure. Amendment 416I would remove a small but dangerous subset of machines that are manifestly illegal and pose acute safety and criminal use risks, preventing their return to the streets or to criminal networks. Neither amendment would ban micromobility. This is not an attack on micromobility at all. Both amendments would preserve the environmental and transport benefits of e-bikes and e-scooters, while ensuring that those benefits do not come at the expense of pedestrian safety, accessibility or the proper functioning of public space. I urge the Committee to support these amendments so that we can restore safe and accessible pavements, and ensure that micromobility serves the public interest rather than undermining it. I beg to move.