“I feel like it should be legalised”, said Michael Ishawa, a biomedical science student at the University of Birmingham and a regular e-scooter renter.
“It’s like a good alternative… if you’re moving somewhere new and you don’t have like a bicycle, you don’t have your car.”
Other riders though were more wary.
“I’m a bit on the fence really,” said Julie Taylor, a professor of nursing.
“I have used them before… I quite enjoyed them.
“But equally as a pedestrian, I’m almost always being nearly run over by very fast ones… I don’t think making them legal will keep people on the roads, they’ll use them on footpaths.”