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> Bikes, E-Bikes, scooters can coexist just fine on the same infrastructure. Yeah, but that's not what the headline says. So I don't understand why you're tel
by peoplefromibiza 4y ago
> Bikes, E-Bikes, scooters can coexist just fine on the same infrastructure.
Yeah, but that's not what the headline says.
So I don't understand why you're telling it to me.
E-bikes are not replacing cars, they are replacing bikes, for people who already used bikes, so only e-bikes sellers and manufacturers "need" them.
Meanwhile there are over 400 thousand two wheeled vehicles with an ice engine, albeit small, but still..., running in Rome everyday that could be easily replaced by e-mopeds and e-motorbikes that would actually make a difference air quality wise.
Bikes are not making a dent in it, believe me.
> The blocking of scooters in Europe is often dumb and motivated by argument that somehow don't apply to equally apply to cars.
Are you saying people from Paris don't know what they want?
Cars at at least are useful for something.
And pay a lot of taxes, billions of euros every year.
> The reality is all these things are better then cars
So why people still prefer cars and are making electric cars?
It's funny that "THE MARKET" is right only when it bothers someone else.
> For a city like Rome with lots of tight spaces it makes some more sense,
It is clear that you don't know Rome, tight spaces in Rome are the minority, maybe you've been to Trastevere one time and believe that's how Rome is built (spoiler: it's not), and don't know what people are complaining about.
You'd be better off by asking when you don't understand something (even though a lot of the reasons are highlighted in the article I posted about Paris)
Scooters are used mainly by American tourists to try'n'kill themselves because they don't understand that other people actually live in Rome and it's not a theme park, like Disneyland. And that there are holes in our streets and you shouldn't run on them at night, drunk, you and your drunk girlfriend, they are for one person only, where the lane for buses is, in the wrong direction. And then abandon them in front of the door of a house, an hotel or a shop or even better throwing them on a sidewalk blocking disabled people.
e-mopeds have plates, you can fine people using them the wrong way.
it is a fundamental part of trying to keep other road users safe.
Including me, that walk all the time in Rome, because I love its very wide spaces.