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Bolt scooters

Milan, September 14 2022 – The citizens of Milan now have another 750 shared electric scooters at their disposal to move around the neighbourhoods. Green structure, black handlebars, integrated GPS, these are the vehicles of the Bolt company. This is the eighth operator authorized by the Municipality to carry out this public service. With the new arrivals, the total fleet of free floating scooters activated in Milan reaches 6.000.

Bolt's vehicles will serve the area inside the 90/91 trolleybus circle and some areas outside the ring road, including Città studi, Lambrate, Argonne, Corvetto, Scalo Romana, Bovisa and Zara/Testi. The extension limits and other conditions of the service can be consulted on the smartphone app that the operator makes available.

The company, already active in Turin, Reggio Emilia, Imperia and Modena, joins Bit, Helbiz, Bird, Dott, Lime, Voi and Tier, the other active operators who responded to the public notice promoted by Palazzo Marino in 2019 for the testing of road circulation of predominantly electric propulsion personal mobility devices, to which the Municipality's logo is associated, providing for a maximum of 6 thousand scooters admitted to circulation with a limit of 750 vehicles per operator. With the entry of the eighth operator, the number of devices that can be authorized for testing shared electric mobility in Milan will therefore be exhausted.

The service was introduced in February 2020, at the conclusion of a regulatory process that defined areas of experimentation and rules of use. The main ones are worth mentioning: maximum speed of 20 km/h, which is reduced to 6 km/h in pedestrian areas, in the Cerchia dei Navigli the pick-up and drop-off of vehicles is permitted exclusively in the areas designated for parking bicycles and motorbikes, in the remaining part of the territory also on the road side, where it is not expressly prohibited.