Nowon-gu Establishes Smartphone Reporting System for Illegal Electric Scooter Parking

Immediate Towing of 5 Major Areas Causing Resident Inconvenience... 3-Hour Grace Period for General Sidewalks... Report via Smartphone and Check Processing Results

[Asia Economy Reporter Jong-il Park] Nowon-gu (Mayor Oh Seung-rok) has established a system that allows easy reporting of illegal parking of electric kickboards and enables immediate towing and collection.

Electric kickboards, a representative of PM (Personal Mobility), are gaining attention as a new short-distance transportation means due to their convenience and eco-friendliness.

However, after use, they are often left haphazardly on roads and sidewalks, causing inconvenience to pedestrians and posing a significant threat to pedestrian safety, including collision accidents.

To create a safe walking environment, the district will immediately tow electric kickboards left indiscriminately in five major areas causing inconvenience to residents.

The immediate towing zones include ▲subway station entrances and exits ▲within 10 meters of bus stops and taxi stands ▲on tactile paving blocks, entrances to elevators for the transportation vulnerable ▲crosswalks ▲and roadways separated from sidewalks. However, parking on general sidewalks is granted a 3-hour grace period to allow PM companies to remove them independently.

Towing hours are from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekdays, and reports made after this time will be processed the next weekday. The towing fee is 40,000 KRW per case, and a storage fee of 700 KRW per 30 minutes is additionally charged at the towing storage facility.

To report illegal parking of kickboards directly, users can access the ‘Seoul Electric Kickboard Parking Violation Reporting System’ on their smartphones and scan the QR code attached to the electric kickboard.

Shared PM companies check the received complaints, collect the kickboards, or move them to a safe place and register the processing results in the system. If the company does not take action within 3 hours, the complaint is forwarded to the towing company, which will carry out the towing.

For more details, inquiries can be made to the Traffic Guidance Division of Nowon-gu Office.

The district is promoting various policies such as posting the ‘Proper Shared PM Usage Guidelines’ on the district office website, setting up parking zones, and expanding docking stations for the convenience of electric kickboard and bicycle users.

Oh Seung-rok, Mayor of Nowon-gu, said, “We ask for the cooperation of kickboard users so that both users and pedestrians can travel safely by wearing safety equipment and following usage rules,” adding, “We will continue to strive to create a safe and orderly traffic culture.”