The Ibiza City Council, through the Local Police, starts this Wednesday a special control campaign for personal mobility vehicles (PMV), “with special attention to electric scooters and their use in our municipality”. From the Consistory detail that in these controls, “compliance with the ordinances will be monitored and will focus especially on the prohibition to circulate in pedestrian areas and respect for the regulations”.
The campaign will be developed over the coming weeks “after the awareness tasks carried out by both the City Council and the Local Police in social networks”, in which “the regulations have been repeatedly reminded throughout the last month”.
The Ibiza Town Hall reminds that the police will sanction the infractions it detects, and among them it highlights that “it is absolutely forbidden to ride on sidewalks and pedestrian areas (200 euros penalty), circulate two people on the same scooter (100 euros penalty), the use of headphones or cell phone (200 euros penalty), it is mandatory to ride with a vest or reflective elements (90 euros penalty) and that users must be over 15 years of age (90 euros penalty)”. Likewise, the use of scooters and VMPs is subject to compliance with the general traffic regulations, respect for road signs and traffic lights, etcetera. They also add that the use of helmets is recommended.
“This type of vehicles provide a very interesting and sustainable mobility solution for the municipality, but they must coexist respectfully with other vehicles and pedestrians, complying with the rules,” says in the press release Rafael Triguero, mayor of Vila.
Current legislation establishes that scooters are designed for use in urban areas and that their users can legally move with them at speeds between six to 25 kilometers per hour. “Thus, it is recalled that if a user has a scooter that allows exceeding these speeds, could not circulate exceeding the speed of 25 km / h on public roads, nor would it be legal to modify the personal mobility vehicle to skip the limitations imposed by manufacturers and current legislation in Spain,” concludes the Consistory in its note.