Hundreds of Lime and Neuron e-scooters trucked out of Melbourne as ban deadline looms

Operators of e-scooter share schemes face penalties if rentals are not removed from City of Melbourne streets by midnight

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About 1,500 e-scooters across Melbourne were on Monday being loaded, one by one, into trucks and taken out of city limits hours before a ban on rental operators took effect.

On Tuesday, the City of Melbourne's ban on shared e-scooters will begin, right before the AFL grand final weekend - one of the busiest times for users in the year. The two companies who operated schemes under a trial, Lime and Neuron, will be subjected to penalties if they do not remove the scooters from city streets by the morning.

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