Stop scooters in Florence, the Regional Administrative Court does not suspend the resolution

The Regional Administrative Court of Tuscany rejected the request to suspend the resolution by which the municipality of Florence decided to stop from 1 April the monoplane sharing, a service that is now diluted in all major European cities.

The company Bird, an international company in the micromobility sector, had requested the precautionary measure, and after the rejection of the suspension it announced that it would continue its appeal: 'The battle is not over. The precautionary ruling does not go into the merits of the legitimacy of the measure and that is why we will go ahead to assert our reasons against a stop that we consider unjustified and disproportionate'. 'The precautionary decision,' Bird specifies, 'only concerns the immediate suspension of the act and does not represent a definitive ruling. In the judgement on the merits, the legal profiles that we continue to consider critical will be addressed,' Bird explains, 'starting with the consistency of the resolution with the national regulatory framework and with the administrative path shared over the years. Over these years we have worked in coordination with the municipal administration, progressively adapting the service to the prescriptions received and investing in safety, control and organisation of the station system. Then all of a sudden the Palazzo Vecchio disowned itself. This is why we believe that there were and are margins for alternative regulatory solutions to the total stop". "The decision to proceed with the matter," Bird concludes, "is a choice of responsibility towards the users, towards the workers involved and towards a model of sustainable mobility that has represented a concrete integration to public transport and other forms of soft mobility. The legal game is still open and it will be the judge who will assess the legitimacy of the decision on the merits'.

In November 2025 the Municipality of Florence had decided, with a resolution of the Council signed by the councillor for mobility Andrea Giorgio, that from 1 April 2026 there will be no more structured service. A decision that rests on two bases: the change in regulations at national level and the criticisms in the management of sharing: wild parking, transit on the wrong side of the road, on pavements and in areas forbidden to traffic, use of bus and taxi lanes.

In the light of the new Highway Code, which has imposed new rules for scooters, including the requirement to wear a helmet, among other things, the municipality considered that the type of service made it problematic to ensure compliance with the rules, even in the face of checks by the municipal police.

At the same time, the municipality has undertaken to strengthen the bike-sharing service, both by increasing the number of bicycles in circulation and by renewing the available vehicles, especially those with muscular pedalling.