Mobility scooters to be banned from Metro
ALL mobility scooters are to banned from the Metro, operator Nexus has announced.
The ban follows a series of incidents on the network in which passengers could have been seriously injured or killed.
These include users driving onto tracks or driving straight through a train and breaking through the doors on the other side, before landing on the tracks.
The ban comes into force from the first train tomorrow morning.
Manual and powered wheelchairs, and lighter scooters which can be folded are not included in the ban.
Bernard Garner, director general of Nexus, said: "This is not a decision we have come to lightly, the level of risk is just not acceptable. If a scooter fell onto the Metro line and was hit by a train then not only would its user probably be killed or hurt but so too would people on board the train."
Previously Nexus had banned the scooters being used unaccompanied but that rule has been regularly flouted.
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