Regulations coming for motorized kick scooters

The P.E.I. authorities is placing collectively laws for the usage of motorized kick scooters on the Island.

At the moment, the scooters are usually not included in laws, which technically means they aren’t allowed wherever. Graham Miner, director of P.E.I’s freeway security division, mentioned it’s time to put some guidelines in place.

“The distinction now could be they’re larger and sooner, and there is extra of them,” Miner mentioned.

“You are actually standing up on a low-speed bike.”

The laws to be used of the scooters will probably be much like these for motorized bicycles, he mentioned.

“The place do you get to make use of it, what is the age of the particular person, how heavy is it, how briskly can it go, do you’ll want to put on a helmet: these are the kind of issues we’re coping with in draft laws,” he mentioned.

Certainly not will they be allowed on sidewalks, mentioned Miner. With scooters sometimes in a position to attain speeds as much as 30 km/h, the implications of a collision with a pedestrian may very well be critical. The roads out there for the scooters may be restricted to these with velocity limits beneath 50 or 60 km/h.

There isn’t any opposition to the usage of the scooters, mentioned Miner. It’s simply taking a while to place the laws in place.

That ought to occur a while this summer season.