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A lot of e-bike riders (and scooters, etc.) are not riding them just in the car lane, but in the sidewalk. It’s easier to advocate for slower e-bikes than for more protected bike lane infrastructure.

Why is this the problem to be solved? If you govern the cars to 15mph, the e-bikes will have no desire to ride on the sidewalk in the first place, and you'll actually save lives instead of making e-bikes so much worse that people just ditch them back for cars

Just saw this but i got a 300$ fine last month for riding a bird scooter without a helmet. One of my arguments against it was they should just the speed further and not have us wearing helmets

Even then, every ticket the police write for going 18mph down a hill on a scooter is one they're not writing for someone going 60mph on a highway while looking at their phone (a target-rich environment that could take up 100% of their time if they were correctly prioritizing)