Glasgow City Council warns parents buying e-scooters as Christmas presents about the legal restrictions surrounding their use in Scotland.
Parents buying e-scooters as Christmas presents have been warned of legal issues which might prevent their use. Glasgow councillors recently backed a crackdown on off-road vehicles like quad bikes and “souped-up” e-bikes. They also said many people aren’t aware of the law around electric scooters, which currently can’t be used on roads or pavements in Scotland.
Cllr Keiran Turner, Labour, said pre-Christmas you could buy a “children’s e-scooter for £99 and an adult e-scooter for under £300” online, with two major retailers “advertising 25 to 30% off”. He added: “Yet, as things stand in Scotland, legally you cannot use them on a road, a pavement or in a park and that is not well understood. “I don’t think for a minute that every person buying a Christmas present or every parent doing the school run is intentionally breaking the law.” He said there needed to be “education along with regulation” to separate some of these cases from “those who are engaging in serious anti-social behaviour”. Cllr Turner, who represents the East Centre ward, said he “regularly sees parents with children on e-scooters making their way to school”. “In our own street we have seen a number of near misses, with scooters, e-bikes, dirt bikes and quad bikes. These stories can be replicated across the city.” Join Glasgow Live's WhatsApp community here and get the latest news sent straight to your message He added: “We need a framework that is well understood, takes account of legitimate uses for these vehicles in work and in active travel and crucially can be enforced when it is broken.” Currently, while it is legal to buy an e-scooter, it is illegal to use one on Glasgow’s public roads, footways, footpaths and public spaces. They can be ridden on private land with the permission of the landowner. Earlier this year, the Scottish Government’s transport secretary Fiona Hyslop said e-scooters will “inevitably” be legalise
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