> And they paid twice as much for their electric bikes ($2000) than they did for their pedal bikes. Let that sink in: The Dutch are already starting to abandon

> And they paid twice as much for their electric bikes ($2000) than they did for their pedal bikes. Let that sink in: The Dutch are already starting to abandon their pedal bikes. This is nonsense. Those ebikes are pedal bikes, they're just electrically assisted up to 25 km/h. You still have to pedal to move forward. And you have to ride them on bike paths/lanes just like normal bikes. So they certainly don't enable getting rid of bike paths: mixing those 25 km/h (often elderly) ebikers with car traffic would be a disaster.