Rejected petition Allow passengers to travel on trains carrying e-scooters.

Currently e-scooter users are banned from bringing their scooters onto trains due to the potential of their Lithium-Ion batteries overheating. Lithium-Ion batteries can be found in numerous electronic devices and the risk of overheating is very small. E-scooters should be allowed on trains.

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E-scooters are a compact, lightweight and affordable way for people to get around towns and cities. It gives people independence to travel, but now this rule to disallow them on trains takes away this freedom from people.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

We can only accept petitions about things the Government or Parliament are directly responsible for.

Decisions about whether to permit passengers to travel with an e-scooter are a matter for individual train companies, not the UK Government or Parliament.

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Date submitted 18 July 2023
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