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One week into Montreal’s experiment with dockless electric scooters, the man responsible for the growing cocktail of mobility options crowding the city’s streets is sounding pretty irked.

Despite regulations described as some of the strictest in the world, reports are multiplying of Lime e-scooters abandoned on sidewalks, of riders driving without helmets, and of near-misses with pedestrians and drivers.

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“We created a system of rules based on making the operator responsible for enforcing them, and we are not satisfied,” said Éric Alan Caldwell, the city’s executive committee member responsible for urban planning and transit. “Despite our rules on parking, there are still many reports of e-scooters, and we have seen it ourselves, that are improperly parked. We are not satisfied. We will meet with the operator and demand they fix the situation, and improve it.”

If not, he said, Lime, which introduced roughly 200 e-scooters onto the streets of Montreal last week, and painted 239 designated zones on city streets where the scooters are supposed to be parked, will be fined.