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October 2, 2020

Tier’s lessons from the world’s scooter capital

Paris has adopted strict scooter regulation, and other cities are getting inspired. Tier Mobility’s France chief says that’s not a bad thing.


Earlier this year, Paris said “non” to scooter chaos and adopted a heavily regulated approach instead, handing out only a few licences for electric-scooter operators to deploy.

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