– The bottom lines of the electric park companies are more important than people’s right to open and secure sidewalks
DEBATE
Oslo’s rules for renting out rental parks for purposes. They do not contribute to “accessible and safe public spaces”. For three years, these cities used a lack of sovereignty as an explanation for why they could not be protected on foot. Last year, the Storting gave them the necessary advice, but they do not use the tools they asked for.
The new regulations describe how the size of rental units can be increased and how the conditions of the landlords can be improved. While Stockholm and Copenhagen have introduced strict rules that protect pedestrians, it is the companies’ bottom lines that must be protected in Norway. And this is not something I dictate, many politicians have stated that stricter rules will go at the expense of companies’ earnings, and that this must be avoided.
People with reduced mobility and the elderly, and the elderly, have become afraid to use the city. The pedestrian association has received a lot of feedback from residents who can not stand more than a year with dangerous obstacle courses on sidewalks and walkways.
We know about more visually impaired who are reluctant to walk out, and today reported Lars Semmerud that he moves. He wants to be able to walk safely with his guide dog, and he has not been able to do so due to the city’s misunderstood «mobility revolution». He has felt trapped on Grünerløkka for three years, and now he is giving up.
Older people are not safe
Act on the rental of small electric vehicles on public land opened for Norwegian municipalities to determine low-speed zones, prohibition zones and bottom parking. The regulations that are now the tender basis for new permits lack such provisions.
In Stockholm, parking is banned in twelve areas of the city. In Copenhagen, electric scooters must be parked and picked up at fast parking spaces. In beg cities there are low-speed and prohibition zones.
Dangerous sidewalks
In Norway, the big cities have free door-to-door parking, which is the main reason why the visually impaired and the elderly have been deprived of the right to move safely.
The municipal politicians in Oslo, Trondheim and Bergen have no reason to pat themselves on the back. They do not use the tool they asked for, and in 2022 sidewalks and walkways will also be impassable and dangerous for the most micro-mobile and green of all road users: we will go where we need to.
Lars came along this prayer to Raymond Johansen last year.