Survey is available until November 15 and is the first step of public participation regarding the future regulation for shared soft mobility.
In 2023, Lisbon will have a Municipal Shared Mobility Regulation (RMMP) which will define rules for the circulation and parking of scooters and dockless bicycles in the city. This document will be drawn up by a law firm in conjunction with the local authority, and will have two phases of public participation. The first of these phases kicked off last Friday, September 30, and runs until November 15th.
For this first moment of participation, Lisbon City Council has made available an online surveyin which users and non-users of these shared soft mobility services, the operators of these means of transport, associations and other entities can share their experience. The survey is short and includes questions such as "What aspects do you find inconvenient?", "What aspects do you identify as needing improvement?", "Do you think that these modes of transport can be an alternative to other modes of transport?", "What difficulties do you identify in using it?" e "How often do you use these modes of transport?".
The answers to the questionnaire will be used to draw up the first version of the RegulationThe Regulation will then be made available for public consultation at the beginning of next year. After this public consultation, the Regulation will be finalized, discussed and approved by both the municipal executive and the municipal deputies, which should happen in April 2023. The Regulation is then expected to come into force by the end of that year.
According to the Lisbon ChamberThe purpose of this Regulation is to "prevent scooters from running on sidewalks, protecting pedestrians, especially the most vulnerable" and at the same time "organizing the parking of scooters, concentrating them in authorized points, both at the beginning of the day and during the day, combating illegal parking". According to the municipality, the The main reason for creating this regulation is dockless shared mobility vehicles (scooters and bicycles).although the document will also cover shared services such as GIRA.
Lisbon City Council says it is "favorable to the existence of private shared mobility services, having welcomed several operators since October 2018, under Memorandums of Understanding, a practice followed by many other Portuguese and foreign cities". And he understands that he is "now in a position to codify in a formal legal instrument the best practices that have resulted from this initial phase, seeking to reconcile the presence of these services more satisfactorily with the protection of pedestrians and the most vulnerable citizens, as well as better management of the public space".
