Andy Burnham on when e-scooters will come to Flixton and Urmston

The Greater Manchester mayor was asked the question on his weekly "hot seat" show on BBC Radio Manchester.

Gaz Drinkwater sat in for Mike Sweeney to host the show, when caller Billy, from Flixton, quizzed the mayor.

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He said: “My question is these e-scooters around Manchester, and the bikes around Salford and Manchester and Didsbury, when are they coming to Trafford?

"Namely Urmston and Flixton, because they’re brilliant.

“The hire bikes and the green scooters that you tap on the app. I work in Salford and on my dinner hour, I’m in my 50s but at the end of the day I’m like a big child, I got on one and I thought ‘these are great these, they should be around our way.’

“I’m going down Eccles New Road going ‘yipeee’, when are they coming round Trafford?”

Currently, company Lime offers scooters for hire in Salford. E-scooters are not currently legal to use on public roads, unless hired through an official scheme, such as the one in Salford.

The mayor responded saying he would keep his eye out for Billy when he was next in the area.

He added: “The bikes, the yellow bikes, are a little bit in Trafford, and we’re trying to expand that all of the time. So, the Bee Bikes as we call them, they’re around and they’re in Salford as well.

“The scooters are a bit more complicated because Salford is in the national pilot, but Trafford isn’t, so Salford was given permission to run a national pilot of e-scooters, but Trafford Borough Council wasn’t, so I think the government, I don’t know whether they’re getting cold feet, though.

Bee Bikes are already in parts of the borough (Image: GMCA)

“Because Paris has recently taken the decision to remove them, haven’t they? Their scooters, and there are, if you listen to the hotseat there are some complaints about them in terms of how they’re used. This is why we’re building that segregated infrastructure so that you give bikes and scooter separation from the pavements and the roads.

“But yeah, I’m interested you’re in favour and we’re obviously waiting for the government’s view on what happens to the e-scooter pilots that they’ve got running.”

Billy responded: “I can see myself going down Flixton Road now with my two Sainsbury’s bags on the handlebars!”

The mayor laughed, adding: “I’ll notice you then, definitely, if that’s the way you do it. It sounds slightly precarious but good luck to you!”