Paris votes to ban two-wheeled nuisance

Residents of the French capital have voted overwhelmingly to rid the streets of rental e-scooters

Nine out of ten Parisians have voted in favor of banning rental electric scooters from the city's streets. Once seen as a pioneering form of green transport, the scooters rapidly became a scourge as users flouted traffic laws and caused crashes and injuries.

Voters chose to ban the scooters by