CANBERRANS can now ride an e-scooter from the city to Belconnen via paths over Bruce Ridge, as part of an expansion of riding zones across the capital.
New safety provisions will also be implemented, included no-ride zones in Radford College, Haydon Retirement Community, inside GIO stadium and Gossan Hill.
Calvary hospital is a permanent slow zone, with a speed limit of 15 km per hour, while GIO Stadium will have this limit in place 90 minutes before and after major events.
E-scooters will now be replaced on a daily basis, around 18 new parking sites in the city’s inner west.
Riding zones will be expanded further in the second half of 2022, with the next stage to include the Woden and Gungahlin regions, followed by Tuggeranong, Weston Creek and greater Belconnen by the end of the year.
Minister for Transport Chris Steel said the extended zones followed community feedback that Canberrans wanted e-scooters more widely available.
“This is the first step towards a citywide expansion of this great new transport technology, as we work to make shared e-scooters available for all Canberrans by the end of the year,” said Mr Steel.
Some concern has grown over e-scooters since their launch in Canberra in 2020.
According to data from the Canberra Health Services, one electronic scooter incident every two days results in hospitalisation.
People rushed into emergency departments in e-scooter incidents
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![Teacher Vanessa Jones has been living in Higgins since 2001, and while she loves the area, she says she is “fed up” with the neglectful ACT government.
The Higgins shops have been completely abandoned, says Vanessa, preventing the opportunity for residents to have a community-centred space to socialise.
They only received bins nine months ago, she says, and requests for a water station and repairs to the bus station have gone unanswered.
“It’s very, very slow,” says Vanessa.
“I asked for the zebra crossing on Fullagar [Crescent] to be repainted, and we had to wait about six or nine months.
“That’s just such a long time… we pay a lot of rates.”
Vanessa says assistance from the government only seems to go to communities with time-rich and assertive communities, leaving places such as Higgins, where the majority of households have both adults working full-time and English may not be the first language of the family, at an automatic disadvantage.
“If you’ve got two people working, paying a mortgage, raising two or three kids, they don’t have the time,” says Vanessa.
Vanessa says the lack of attention quieter places such as Higgins is receiving is starting to look a lot like favouritism.
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