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We have dedicated bike infrastructure where I am. Paths that only bikes and peds can use, okay, dogs too. Love the paths, love the scenery, hate the ebikes. It
by Balgair 4y ago
We have dedicated bike infrastructure where I am. Paths that only bikes and peds can use, okay, dogs too. Love the paths, love the scenery, hate the ebikes.
It's bad enough when someone comes whizzing from behind on their road bike, but at least I can kinda hear their rear cassette idling and pull kids out of the way. The ebikes are just silent and I can't hear them coming up from behind for nothing. Just, whoom, all of a sudden they are cutting between me and the tykes and my inner momma-bear becomes an outer momma-bear before I even know it happened. I do not know what it is with me, but I just cannot stand it when they come out of nowhere near the rugrats at those speeds.
Yeah, I know, I'm complaining about idiots, big surprise. But where I am, it's gotten pretty bad with the pandemic and seems that only the idiots bought ebikes.
Maybe I'm just jealous and should buy one myself!
- cassianoleal 4y ago> We have dedicated bike infrastructure where I am. Paths that only bikes and peds can use, okay, dogs too. This is contradictory. Dedicated bike infrastructure is for bikes only. Pedestrians and dogs should have their own dedicated, also physically segregated (from the bikes!), paths. Mixed bike/pedestrian paths is horrible for everyone. The cyclists who cannot ride efficiently and are constantly worried someone or their dog are suddenly going to appear in front of them, and for the pedenstrian (and their dogs) who, as you aptly described, have to be constantly worried about getting run over by a bike. I do agree pretty much with everything else in your comment though.