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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Caitlin Cassidy

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Solution or hazard australia s e scooter debate gains speed but the rules are a mess - The Untold Story

A woman rides a Lime rental e-scooter on a bike path
E-scooter rental schemes are legal and popular in Melbourne, but New South Wales remains the only Australian state to prohibit them. Photograph: James Ross/AAP

Grace Dowling remembers the day e-scooters arrived in Melbourne. She was working at a pub on Brunswick Street until the early morning. When she emerged, “It was like Chicken Little.”

“There were hundreds,” she says.

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