They mention electric scooters having their own challenges and solutions without going into any details. Do they treat them as bikes or bikes? Do they get their own lanes? The article ended too soon!
Electric scooters are considered a “light electric vehicle”, but they have basically the same rules and obligations as normal bicyclists (they’re supposed to stay in the bike lane, etc). But the scooters aren’t allowed to go faster than 25km/h, and you need to be over 15 to use one.
Great news, congratulations Helsinki.
They mention electric scooters having their own challenges and solutions without going into any details. Do they treat them as bikes or bikes? Do they get their own lanes? The article ended too soon!
My wag: they’re treated like bikes or skateboards or even pedestrians, but somewhat vaguely. Definitely no own lanes. Not treated as mopeds.
I had to go to urban dictionary for wag = wild-ass guess.
Oh, that’s right. I thought that was common enough.
(I’m a Finn, so it’s not that wild, but still don’t really know what the official stance is other than vague.)
Electric scooters are considered a “light electric vehicle”, but they have basically the same rules and obligations as normal bicyclists (they’re supposed to stay in the bike lane, etc). But the scooters aren’t allowed to go faster than 25km/h, and you need to be over 15 to use one.
So none.
They also recently introduced a 0.5‰ BAC limit for light electric vehicles.