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00:00We're targeting our vulnerable road users, so e-scooters, bicycles as well as pedestrians.

00:10We want everyone to be safe up in their CBD area.

00:16The traffic is slow around the CBD, being 30 and 40 kms, but our vulnerable road users

00:23are the main target of our hop.

00:26We've got Operation Pathways. It's going to run over April to June. We'll have a specific

00:32couple of days that we will target the operation, mainly in the CBD, down the beach, like the

00:39tourist areas, Poteau Road. We will be targeting school areas as well, and around the industrial

00:46state midfields.

00:48And what have been some concerns lately?

00:50We've had a lot of concerns around people under 16 riding e-scooters. So to ride an e-scooters

00:56must be over 16. Also, we've had a lot of people not wearing helmets and riding on the

01:05footpaths.

01:06What are misconceptions about scooters that people might not realise are a rule that they

01:10might be breaking?

01:11Yep. So the general rule around an e-scooter being compliant to be ridden in public is

01:18that it can't be a high-powered e-scooter. So generally anything over 250 kilowatts is classed

01:26as being a high-powered e-scooter. So some of the ones we've had around actually are up to

01:341000 watts. They're capable of speeds up to 40, 50, 60 kilometres an hour. And given that

01:41people aren't wearing helmets, these are young kids like 10 to 12 years old riding these e-scooters

01:47on the road, it becomes a recipe for disaster.