E Scooter on Trains
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fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Usually dodgy batteries TBH.
From various reports I've occasionally seen, then E scooter tend to be fitted with less than quality cheapo batteries then - ?
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
E scooters aren't legal to use so the odds of them having a safe and standard-compliant battery is zero.
EPACs are legal, and legal ones will almost all have better quality batteries and are a much safer bet.
Theres never a guarantee, but based on this I'd suggest they've drawn their linenin the sand at a fairly sensible position.
EPACs are legal, and legal ones will almost all have better quality batteries and are a much safer bet.
Theres never a guarantee, but based on this I'd suggest they've drawn their linenin the sand at a fairly sensible position.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
TfL are much more even handed. No e-bikes or e-scooters.
Oh, unless it folds up. Folding e-bikes are OK. But not folding scooters.
Except for the Woolwich Ferry and Silvertown shuttle. You can take e-bikes regardless of foldability but not e-scooters on those.
https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/cycling/cycles-on-public-transport
Oh, unless it folds up. Folding e-bikes are OK. But not folding scooters.
Except for the Woolwich Ferry and Silvertown shuttle. You can take e-bikes regardless of foldability but not e-scooters on those.
https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/cycling/cycles-on-public-transport
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Hhhm. No firearms, but folding stock SLRs are ok!
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
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- Inside my skull
Folding firearms allow you to shoot round corners
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Are GA allowing e-bikes again now?Greater Anglia now have a rule of no E Scooters on trains, but E Bikes & mobility scooters are okay.
Something to do with safety, but as all three E vehicles have batteries, what am I missing here - ?
But as well as the general legality problems, e-scooter batteries are generally less protected from damage in use, with the battery in a vulnerable position, not inside a frame or rack or high off the road like most e-bikes. Some e-scooters even have the rider stood on the battery.
Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
E-bikes were among the items exempted from the ban - see the bottom of the press release from May 2023:
https://www.greateranglia.co.uk/abo...articles/greater-anglia-ban-e-scooters-1-june
I've seen a few home modified or downright illegal ones onboard that I'd like to have seen refused carriage when I've used GA in the past few years.
