Police hold day of action on illegal e-bikes and e-scooters
Not before time, it’s a nightmare, they just come out of nowhere
Marie Glen
It will take serious incident before the authorities take a stance. The delivery companies must take some responsibility with uneducated cyclists, to protect them and pedestrians/road users Pat Curran
Wonder how many of those caught were fast food delivery riders?
Alex Monaghan
I just about got hit by an e-scooter a few months ago in Great Junction Street, there was a police car over the road so I went over to ask them what are they going to do about it, they shrugged their shoulders and said what would you like us to do about it. My answer was arrest them & they said we have more pressing things to do, to which I replied it looks like it, parked up doing nothing, they arrested me for breach of the peace. They then dropped the charges. To me This is basically a publicity stunt Stephen Bell
Passed a Police Scotland traffic car on Thursday at Lugton Brae outside Dalkeith, e-scooter on the pavement going uphill with the person on it on the phone. Police officers totally ignored it Douglas Gordon
The police have the power to take away the e-scooters and e-motor bikes, but not the electric assisted bikes with peddles. But I bet they will do nothing as per usual
Brian Davies
Electric assisted bikes are not illegal to use though, the other two are
Ally Preston
The police should have the power to seize any bike even a pedal bike if the cyclist has used it to break the law David Nisbet
Don’t for the life of me understand what all the fuss is about, e-scooters are legal in most European countries but as per usual outdated UK. E-bikes are in my opinion different as I’ve seen these overtake cars and pulling out from nowhere. My point being scooters are ok but e-bikes not
Neil Cunningham
They need to do this at
Newington it’s a nightmare trying to cross the road and walk along the pavements Grahame Underhill
Not enough police and restricted in what they are allowed to do
Michael Nicholson
About time they did this. It’s a free for all out there and it’s about time we started to look at all on the roads with the same gusto as car drivers. Today, outside Aldi on Gilmerton Road, I witnessed a crash where a cyclist T-boned a car. Car drivers fault for sure, but I question the bollard lanes and the part they played, also the cyclist might have wished he had hi-viz, or blinking lights and for sure he’d wish he had a helmet on instead of his full sized bluetooth headphones! Tom MacDonald
If they’re illegal on the streets why not just ban shops from selling them, let’s face it how many that own them have private land to ride them on Sean Henderson
Unregistered electric scooters and non-compliant electric bikes should not be used on public paths or roads, only on private land with the owner’s permission
Julie Starr
Keep those contraptions off the FOOTpaths!
Mark Slavin