Don't Play Electric Scooters At Night Anymore

EScooter riders in Jakarta (Instagram / @ grabid)

JAKARTA - The Jakarta Transportation Agency (Dishub) will ban the use of electric scooters (eScooter) after 11pm. This is the aftermath of a collision between a car driver and an electric scooter user who died on Sunday, November 10 yesterday.

Head of DKI Jakarta Transportation Agency, Syafrin Liputo, explained that the reason for limiting the hours of using electric scooters at 11 pm was due to adjusting the operation of mass transportation such as Transjakarta and Integrated Moda Raya (MRT).

Given, the initial hope of the DKI Provincial Government regarding the use of scooters as a means of transportation that takes users to bus stops and stations as a means of traveling.

"For the operating hours that we are now reviewing, we are inline with the mass public transportation system that operates, such as Transjakarta or the MRT from 5 am to 11 pm. We hope that after 11 pm the escooter operators will no longer rent it out," said Syafrin when contacted. , Wednesday, November 13.

This limitation of operating hours is carried out while waiting for regulations that are being reviewed by the DKI Provincial Government. The target is that the regulations regarding the use of electric scooters will take effect from December this year.

"We finalize this week, then next week we will announce it. We hope that the end of November will be signed by Governor Anies Baswedan," he said.

In fact, studies to form regulations regarding the operation of electric scooters have been discussed since the scooter service provider, GrabWheels, began to bloom in early October.

However, until the use of scooters began to worry pedestrians, damage to the pedestrian bridge (JPO) facility, and resulted in casualties, regulations have not yet been issued.

Actually, the DKI Provincial Government also does not want to buy time in formulating a Governor Regulation (Pergub) regarding electric scooters. However, it cannot be denied that the rules for using electric scooters must be made comprehensively.

"The study cannot be partially limited to making arrangements for eScooter. But we will examine all the existing elements, so that when we issue the regulations this month they will not be revised intermittently," he explained.