Here are the 14 proposals below:

1. E-scooter users should have a valid driving license – in the AM category for 16-18 year olds and any category for over 18s – that should be verified by operators in advance. Operators must keep a database of their clients with the relevant information according to the GDPR and regularly update it by requesting their clients to confirm the validity of their driving licenses.
2. An app should be launched for people to report broken and badly parked e-scooters to operators, who will be obliged to remove them after verifying the abuse. 
3. Enforcement authorities should have a right to confiscate e-scooters that break parking laws and the operators must pay a fee to recover them. 
4. E-scooters should have visible and easily identifiable registration plates.
5. The concept of “presumed responsibility” should apply to e-scooter riders so as to minimise their risk to vulnerable people.
6. E-scooters should have a “more visible” design.
7. An awareness campaign on the rules and laws of e-scooters should take place.
8. An extensive study should take place on the streets, pavements and promenades on which e-scooters can be used, from which they should be banned or limited, and from which they should be banned or limited pending infrastructural improvements.
9. Parking zones should be set up, complete with racks and charging stations, to serve as the sole potential parking spaces for e-scooters. Parking zones should be allocated according to the demand of localities and streets, and should ideally be sited on pavements and come with PV roofing.
10. E-scooter riders should wear helmets at all times, and helmets should be available at parking zones.
11. The number of registered rental e-scooters should be proportionate to the number of available e-scooter parking spaces. E-scooter operators can only expand their fleet on a basis of demand and parking space availability and submit their justifications to the authorities in advance before actually registering the new vehicles.
12. All fines should be issued directly to the operators, who will then be responsible for collecting the money from their lawbreaking clients.
13. “Non-intrusive” speed trackers should be installed on e-scooters to send real-time information to the authorities about the speed and location of every e-scooter in use. Those who exceed the speed limit will be fined, with fines fluctuating according to how much the speed limit was exceeded and for how long.
14. A penalty points system should be implemented for e-scooter riders, which will be linked to the existent points system for car owners. This means that persistent e-scooter traffic law breaches will see people banned from driving both e-scooters and cars.

What do you make of the proposals?