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Scotland set to follow England in allowing e-scooter rental trials

Deniz Huseyin
09 May 2024
Fiona Hyslop: E-scooters will be part of transport in the future but public opinion remains polarised
Fiona Hyslop: E-scooters will be part of transport in the future but public opinion remains polarised

 

Electric scooter rental trials could start north of the border after Scotland’s Cabinet Secretary for Transport Fiona Hyslop suggested their legalisation was an “inevitability”.

Speaking to The Scotsman, she predicted e-scooters “will be part of transport in the future” but added that public opinion was “quite polarised” and there were “genuine safety issues”.

“It’s not a current priority for us, and anything we did would be in...

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