I think e-bikes can be great for people (I’ve never tried them). But sometimes people get a little too…enthused? about the speed. My town has a major regional bike/ walking trail within it (runs more than 250 miles through large metropolitan areas, mountain valleys, farmland, small towns). There’s a speed limit but often cyclists do to walkers on the trail what cyclists complain that cars do to them on the road! I like to walk on the trail (it runs 1/2 mile from my house). I’ve felt my life threatened numerous times by e-bikes whizzing joyfully past, inches away from me, seemingly without a care in the world. I stay to the far edge of the trail and give them lots of space. I have a hearing loss and even with hearing aids I cannot always hear them approaching and I fear that making the mistake of stepping out even a couple of inches toward the middle could cost me my life someday. There is no one policing the trail.
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