Parisians have overwhelmingly voted to ban e-scooters from their city’s streets, with 90% of voters in favour of scooting them out of Paris for good.

France’s capital was at the forefront of the e-scooter revolution in 2018, promoting them as a non-polluting form of urban transport.

Presently, there are nearly 15,000 e-scooters in Paris, operated by companies like Lime, Dott and Tier. However, their popularity coinceded with a growing amount of injuries.

In 2022, three people died and 459 cases of e-scooter injuries were reported in Paris.

A total of 21 polling stations were set up across Paris over the weekend in a rare “public consultation”, with the ban winning between 85.77% and 91.77% of the votes in the 20 Parisian districts that published results.

And while the vote was deemed non-binding, the city’s authorities have vowed to follow the results, with Parisian mayor Anne Hidalgo promoted cycling and bike-sharing but supporting the ban on e-scooters herself.

Not everyone agrees with the e-scooter ban.

“Paris is going against the current,” Lime’s general manager Hadi Karam told AFP in response to the overwhelming vote. Meanwhile, French transport minister Clement Beaune didn’t seem too happy with the result either, telling Europe 1 Radio last week that he finds it “a shame that we have caricatured and dumbed down the debate”, arguing e-scooters are “a valuable transport solution that has replaced up to one in five journeys in Paris that would previously have been made using pollution-emitting vehicles”.