The General Directorate of Traffic has planned new rules for drivers of electric scooters, with a regulation that they have been working on for three years. One of the main measures proposed is to prohibit scooters for minors under 16 years of age and require their owners to register in a vehicle registry with the DGT. As reported by the newspaper El País, which has had access to the objections phase, the final approval may still take a year.
Other obligations that scooter owners will have to comply with will be to wear an approved helmet and the mandatory lights. Scooter users must carry "at least" one luminous or retro-reflective element at night and at times when there is poor visibility, Traffic has highlighted. Scooter drivers must use one arm at all times to warn other users of the maneuvers they are going to perform.
If the scooter is used for work, drivers will have to wear a high visibility reflective vest .
As reported to the DGT, the new rules will add more protection to pedestrians. The sidewalks will be exclusive to them and the circulation and parking of vehicles will be restricted as much as possible with the aim of protecting people, especially users who have reduced mobility. With the update of the regulations, users with reduced mobility who move in personal mobility vehicles will be considered pedestrians.
One of the most notable parts of the modifications is related to the permitted blood alcohol level. A rate that will drop for novice and professional drivers to 0.20 grams per liter of blood alcohol (the limit is now 0.30) or 0.15 milligrams per liter of exhaled air (currently it is 0.10).
As reported by the media, the General Directorate of Traffic is preparing the extensive package of measures that will increase security for the most vulnerable people. The DGT continues to prepare a decree for the protection of vulnerable road users; the rule proposes always leaving sidewalks for pedestrians. In addition, the regulation includes always leaving the sidewalks for pedestrians, although it also appreciates that municipalities can regularize the parking of two-wheeled vehicles, with the condition that they do not harm pedestrian traffic.
The text containing these new measures has already begun its public hearing and information phase this Wednesday, with which from now on the interested entities or persons must make their pertinent contributions. Once these issues have been presented, the regulation will have to be approved by the Council of Ministers , as indicated by Traffic.
Vox in Arrecife urges that the circulation of scooters be "controlled"
A current topic that recalls Vox's request in Arrecife to the capital's city council for "control" of users of electric scooters. This Tuesday, the Vox spokesperson in the Arrecife City Council, Eugenio Hernández, complained to the municipal government of his "discomfort" over what is happening with scooter drivers, who make "walking through Arrecife in certain areas is becoming an a true odyssey," Hernández recalled.
The party criticizes the attitude of the City Council, which "committed to controlling circulation", but users "continue to swarm around the city like Pedro around his house", he highlighted. For all these reasons, Hernández will present a motion to the municipal plenary session not only demanding "greater control and surveillance" but even a "prohibition" of them circulating in certain areas.
