From mid-October, a «red zone» for personal electric vehicles will be introduced in the historical part of Ivano-Frankivsk: electric scooters, electric bicycles, and Segways will not be allowed there. Sharing operators must block trips within the perimeter and reduce speed on nearby streets, and owners of private scooters in the prohibited zone will be fined.
From mid-October, a «red zone» for personal electric vehicles will be introduced in the historical part of Ivano-Frankivsk: electric scooters, electric bicycles, and Segways will not be allowed there. Sharing operators must block trips within the perimeter and reduce speed on nearby streets, and owners of private scooters in the prohibited zone will be fined.
Forbes Ukraine writes about this. According to the city council, the decision was made after a number of incidents and injuries, and control will be provided by road signs and patrols. The restrictions will be in effect in the central perimeter: on Sichovyh Striltsiv, Mazepa, Halytska, Stanislavska, Sheremety, Virmenska, Levko Lukyanenko, Hrushevsky and Vahylevycha streets.
On nearby streets, the speed of rental scooters will be limited to 10-15 km/h. For owners of private vehicles, fines of UAH 344 are provided for entering a zone where traffic is prohibited, the city authorities report. The city explains the step by the increase in the number of incidents: last year there were 42% more of them (71 cases according to the court register), and in September a six-year-old child was hospitalized after being hit by an electric vehicle.
Bolt calls Ivano-Frankivsk one of the three most active cities for the service after Kyiv and Lviv, but does not expect a significant impact on business: the restrictions will rather reduce user mobility. Jet Ride, which operates in 39 cities and has a fleet of about 10,500 scooters, plans to enter Ivano-Frankivsk in early 2026 and supports local slowdown zones and restrictions in parks and pedestrian areas. According to the company, the average check in Kyiv is 45-50 UAH, the profitability of the model can reach up to 40% per year, and losses from vandalism are approximately 1% of the total scooter fleet per year.
In Ukraine, the demand for sharing is growing: according to operators, the market has doubled over the past three years, despite wartime and population decline.
There are still no generally accepted rules: personal electric vehicles are not allocated to a separate category, there is no state accounting of such vehicles. Cities are asking the government for uniform standards, but current decisions are on the conscience of communities. Draft law No. 3023, which defines the status of users of personal light electric vehicles and traffic rules for them, has been put back into work: the document is being processed by central authorities. Business insists that the market should be involved in the second version in order to avoid «gray zones» in the application of traffic rules.
Ivano-Frankivsk became the first regional center to «close» a scooter center. Further market dynamics will depend on whether nationwide rules work and whether cities manage to combine safety with micromobility without total bans.
Previously, dev.ua wrote about how the CEO of Ukrainian electric bike manufacturer Delfast, Daniel Tonkopiy, declared that the micromobility boom was over. He gave many arguments to support this theory.
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