Government tells MPs e-scooter trials will clarify their legal status

Understanding the positive and negative impacts of electric scooters from the data and evidence of current on-road trials will be key to the decision about whether they will be legalised, the government has told the House of Commons Transport Committee.

The Transport Committee has published the government’s Response to its report, E-scooters: pavement nuisance or transport innovation?.

In the report, published in October, the committee called for swift action to legalise the use of...

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