A spokesman of Bird has stated that their services are temporarily interrupted, hinting at an impending return of the service after some modifications.

Ten days after its arrival in Luxembourg, Bird, the American operator of the e-scooters, has been asked by the city on Thursday evening to remove its scooters. The company has complied with the city's request and will remove the scooters within 48 hours.

According to a press release, Bird has complied with the city's demand to remove the free-floating e-scooters from midnight on Thursday onwards. The entirety of vehicles will be removed in the following two days.

Re-establishing the service

The American company states that they will make changes before re-establishing the service. However, they do not specify what exactly will be modified.

The operator started its activity in Luxemburg City on 8 October, when they installed 360 e-scooters in two areas of the capital.

However, the authorities have at once communicated their irritation, saying that the e-scooters are dangerous for other users of the street.

The American company claims to have received permission

Nevertheless, Bird told AFP that they received permission to start their activities in the city of 115,000 inhabitants.

The latter is equipped with a bus and tram network, whose ongoing construction disrupts the mobility in certain areas.

Moreover, a care sharing service and free-floating e-bikes, operated together with the French group JCDecaux, are available.

In Luxembourg as well as in other European cities and the United States, the management of this new mode of transportation creates problems for the authorities, as questions about the use of public highways and the security of users emerge.

Large cities, such as New York and Seattle in the US and Milan in Italy, have banned the e-scooters, sometimes after a negative testing phase.