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After nine months of activity in the city, the operator announced the withdrawal of the entire fleet before Monday, October 21.
A fortnight ago, Jean-Luc Ricca, Deputy Mayor of Marseille responsible for traffic and parking, confirmed in our columns have decided to retain three operators electric scooters for the city: Bird, Circ and Voi. An emblematic operator has been dismissed. Lime, however the first company to have settled in the Phocaean city, has thus formalized, this Thursday, its total withdrawal before midnight October 21.
50 employees will lose their activity
" Lime took note of the decision of the tender commission of the City of Marseille which privileged three other operators to operate in the city. Our disappointment is commensurate with the commitment and efforts of the company since 9 months ", Regrets the operator most requested by the Marseillais.
The self-service electric scooter service, first come to Marseille, recorded 2.5 million kilometers driven by its 230,000 users over 1.5 million journeys. But above all, the company had, in addition to many partners, about fifty employees in the city, employees who could all lose their business. Even though Lime says he is " look for solutions To offer them " prospects in a short time The company wishes them " to find a job as soon as possible ". Hard to do better.
Marseille has redesigned the electric scooter market
Marseille has decided to reduce the number of local market players of free-floating electric scooters to three operators. While there are currently around 4,700 machines in the city, the three players who will share the market from 21 October can each operate up to 2,000 electric scooters, a total of 6,000 on the entire city , to the maximum. And this for three years.
Regarding the income generated by the town hall through this market, each electric scooter in circulation pays him 90 euro cents per month. Starting next year, operators will also have to donate a portion of their annual turnover to the city. Lime was probably not among the most generous …
Source: press release
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