E-scooters, future or fad
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
E-scooters, they're being trialled in over 30 areas in the UK, some say they're the future of green urban travel, whilst others say they're a disruptive fad. Matt Chorley speaks to the Head of Roads Policy at the RAC, Nick Lyes and Lindsay Coyle, the local campaigns manager at the Royal National Institute for Blind People, as well as Nick Freeman, aka Mr. Loophole, a traffic lawyer petitioning the government to require e-scooter riders to display a visible ID. And last but not least, he asks Kerry McCarthy, Labour MP for Bristol East about the success of e-scooters in Bristol.
PLUS he dives into Tuesday's news with Times Columnists Danny Finkelstein and David Aaronovitch on Keir Starmer being uncharismatic and a report from the Pentagon detailing evidence on UFO's.
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating 5 feet above ground, sun on your face as you slide by on track to your destination. |
| 0:12.0 | Not a car in the world, as you simply lean back. And before you know it, you're there. |
| 0:20.0 | This is how travel should feel, and on our trains, it does. |
| 0:25.0 | Avanti West Coast, feel good travel. |
| 0:32.0 | This episode of Red Box is brought to you in association with SSE, a leading clean energy champion, accelerating the transition to net zero. |
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| 1:46.0 | Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Surely coming up on today's episode, where do you stand on East scooters? |
| 1:58.0 | You stand on the little platform bit, but they are spreading across the country. |
| 2:02.0 | Those of Towns and cities are starting to trial them. |
| 2:05.0 | Are they the future of transport or are they a silent menace? |
| 2:09.0 | I was in another sort of blue pizza episode after the space centrifuge business. |
| 2:14.0 | I've been out to try out using an East scooter. I didn't really like it. |
| 2:18.0 | But we'll also find out about the whether or not they are legal and whether or not they really are the future of transport. |
| 2:23.0 | So that's coming up in our big thing on the podcast. |
| 2:25.0 | But first, it's our columnist panel. It must be Tuesday. It must be Finkelfitch. It's Daniel Fungstein and David Aronovich. |
| 2:32.0 | Meet the Cerberus of Colomists, the Janus of Journalism, and the ultimate political portmanteur of opinion. |
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