Motorized Scooters Gain Popularity in Europe, Raising Legal Questions

Fashion has arrived, as always, from the United States and within a few months has also infected Europeans, Italians included, with the scooter becoming a cult object. Super technologically advanced, made from lightweight alloys, the small bicycle is used by everyone, from managers to students, to zip through crowded city streets.

In Riva, yesterday morning, a noisy motorized version made its appearance, on which a tourist zigzagged for a long time among the amazed passersby in the historic center.

The question everyone was asking was one: “In the pedestrian zone, is the motorized scooter subject to fines or not?”