Leopold Notes was the beginning of this month the owner of an electric scooter. He wants the vehicle to be able to use every week to visit his deceased wife in the cemetery. The trek on foot or using public transport to travel, was for the Bomenaar an impossible task. “I have a stroke, leaving the left side of my body paralysed”, he explains. “I may be a little steps, but my left leg is dragging still. I am the past few months, in all regular cases. That is why I am so happy that I finally have a scooter have to move me.”
risk of tiltingOne problem only: Leopold has nowhere a place for the scooter to store or to load. “I live in a social apartment in the Antwerpsestraat. There are underground parking spaces, but which have a considerable slope. If I get the scooter there is the risk of tilting is too large. The vehicle inside is not an option, because there is the elevator too small for. A friend of mine has a charging point to his social home in the Elzenstraat and has offered myself to the scooter there to stables. But I'm driven by a social housing company, Good Live Rupelstreek. I may use the scooter only parking if I pay. If I could, I would do that. But I have not money.”