The people's expressed entitlement of autos in the public domain is the major problem. These people always forget that the only thing that gives them preference is money and "potential collateral damage".
Here is a hierarchy of the publics' transportational proiorities, if fair access is the goal:
1) Support the vulnerable! Allow those citizens that need to use mobility vehicles to be able to use them along with;
4) bicycles_ nonmotorised > motorized. It is the electric motor that is the new drug.
5) legitimate business vehicles - trades, delivery etc.
6) the personal automobile.
I live in Canada. The list is absolutely reversed.
Every conscious, functioning and physically capable that demands electric assist for their non-discretionary travel is technically handicapped! The electric motor is the new drug.
I tell the teenagers riding their e-bikes that when they ask me why I don't use electric assist on my bike. is that I am not disabled". Even on greater than 10% hills!
Preachy badvocates ignore a lot
as they go about their self righteous
fear mongering ways.
But one fact glares, at least to me:
The tsunami of ebikes
descending on us proves that
if you remove all that nasty exercise
from bicycling,
Americans will ride.
All the infra,
all the scare mongering, and
all the tax $s wasted by the
Advocacy Industrial Complex
totally failed to increase
bicycle use for decades.
Max 2% Mode Share.
Infra didn't increase it,
didn't do shit for bicycling
but make it more hazardous.
NACTO failed.
CAlBike failed.
The LAB failed.
But cheap Chinese crap
dumped on our shores
put more butts on bike seats
than all of them combined.
Forget Mommy and Daddy
not letting little Johnny ride his
bicycle on the street.
Forget that they won't ride
themselves cause
"there's no safe place to ride."
Bicycle corrals at middle schools
are filled again-- with Ebikes.
Johnny will ride. All over town.
IF the little beggar
doesn't have to pedal.
Like his parents, Johnny is
fat and lazy. He (maybe not so
secretly) hates exercise.
He learned that from Mom and Dad.
And now they've discovered that
if Johnny wants to ride his ass off
Mom doesn't have to drive him.
To his friends house. The skate park.
The beach. Or to school.
Which means Mon can sleep in
or get to work with one less worry.
Except one: Johnny may be
terrorizing people on the sidewalks.
May be poppin' wheelies
through red lights.
May be riding barefoot
and helmetless all over town.
And that "E-bike"
they bought him on line,
without assembly,
without instructions,
without consumer warnings,
or even honest description of what it
actually is....
"Well, cool ebike you got there kid.
Does your Mom know it's a Motorcycle?"
Now suddenly, Surprise!
The bike biz cares about
Education.
The people's expressed entitlement of autos in the public domain is the major problem. These people always forget that the only thing that gives them preference is money and "potential collateral damage".
Here is a hierarchy of the publics' transportational proiorities, if fair access is the goal:
1) Support the vulnerable! Allow those citizens that need to use mobility vehicles to be able to use them along with;
2) increased pedestrian access; reduce pedestrian restrictions;
3) public Transit;
4) bicycles_ nonmotorised > motorized. It is the electric motor that is the new drug.
5) legitimate business vehicles - trades, delivery etc.
6) the personal automobile.
I live in Canada. The list is absolutely reversed.
Every conscious, functioning and physically capable that demands electric assist for their non-discretionary travel is technically handicapped! The electric motor is the new drug.
I tell the teenagers riding their e-bikes that when they ask me why I don't use electric assist on my bike. is that I am not disabled". Even on greater than 10% hills!