Czech city wants to promote wider use of shared bike services and says e-scooters have higher accident rates
Prague will ban electric scooter rentals from January 2026, with a deputy mayor of the Czech capital criticising them for causing chaos on pavements.
Council members on Monday approved regulatory changes concerning shared transport in the city, where nearly 1.4 million people live and where the cobblestoned streets and history attracted more than 8 million tourists in 2024.
While bikes – both pedal and electric – face new rules on where they can be parked, e-scooters are not addressed in the regulations, in effect stopping their use in the city.
“The end of electric scooters approved!”, the national Pirate party chair, Zdeněk Hřib, who is a deputy mayor in charge of transport at Prague’s city hall, said on X on Monday.
