Mary McCarthy

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1,469 appearances 8 recordings 4 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 11 Sep

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The Claire Byrne Show · Do we need to ban e-scooters outright? · 10 Jul 2026 podcast

Oh, so it's not working there either.

So the thing is, it's so confusing because all around the EU is different things.

So what they're doing is they're banning the e-scooters, the shared e-scooters in January in Brussels, but you can have the private scooters.

A lot of people commute on the private scooters and you'll see them.

Like I've neighbours, fully grown neighbours.

They're not like 15 year old lads and they wear helmets and they have their scooter because it is very handy because you can scoot to the train station.

You can take it on the train, number one.

You can't take electric scooters on public transport here.

So they're letting the shared bikes, they're leaving that there.

The scooters are banning because there's been complaints they've been involved in criminal.

There was like there was 36 involved in shootings last year.

And also, again, as I mentioned, there's 15 deaths.

And then there's also cluttering the pavement.

People are complaining about that.

So they are banning them.

But I actually think that's

And that's not the most sensible thing to do because I just think there'll be more private scooters now because people do rely on them as part of the public transport in Brussels.

And then there's been a study in Antwerp that showed that 80% of the deaths are actually from the private scooters.

So they're not from the shared scooters.

So who knows what's going to happen?

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