Vans keep killing kids! Time to… ban e-bikes?
This bill is completely brainless.
this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2024
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Obviously the solution is to ban children
When a rider on a rental e-scooter was killed by a driver in a pickup truck, who was found to be responsible for her death for failure to yield, you know what our city did?
Banned rental e-scooters from riding on that road, even though she was killed on a sidewalk when the driver failed to look both ways before coming out of a stop at a gas station. I should add that this road is one that leads to places of employment, several grocery stores, a community centre, a high school, and homes.
The area where she was killed has no cycling infrastructure, despite that road having been expanded from two to four lanes. Nothing was changed, other than banning e-scooters.
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But it was named in that kids honor, how could it be bad
Anyone 16 or older can use any e-bike.
Bill isn't that bad. Restricts kids from using stronger e-bikes.
It restricts them from using all e-bikes, even low speed ones which are not very dangerous.
Young people deserve transportation access too.
I fail to see why an acoustic bike couldn't have been involved in a similar collision. This is a problem of car first infrastructure, not ebikes.
The teen was riding an e-bike on a sidewalk along Highway 20 in Bend last June when a van turned right, striking and killing him.
OK, how old was this teen? 13 or 19?
On a sidewalk is problematic, but usually a symptom of poor infrastructure.
The driver who killed this cyclist holds some responsibility, too.
None of this has anything to do with motor or speed. 🤔
The teen was riding an e-bike on a sidewalk along Highway 20 in Bend last June when a van turned right, striking and killing him.
Kid on sidewalk hit by van so … ban kids from riding bikes? How does this make sense to literally anybody at all?