CalBike is right. Blaming teenage e-bike riders for getting killed on bad streets by bad drivers makes zero sense. Infrastructure improvement is badly needed.
that tried to victim blame after this tragedy. They didn’t spend as much time on the topic , but they again pointed out that blaming victims and passing BS laws/ordinances is no substitute for proper infrastructure.Looking at what governments and commentators/journalists are doing, as well as the comments I’ve seen about this on social media, I don’t think everyone who calls for e-bike regulations in response to tragedies like this are all making the same mistake.
It’s also tough politics to tell drivers to behave. I don’t personally agree with urbanists and planners who think we should be super harsh on drivers, because high fines disproportionately hurt the poor and lowering speed limits to unnatural levels doesn’t really make people slow down. But, more reasonable solutions to the problem, like narrowing a street up a little to make room for a protected bike lane also upset drivers. So, the politicians avoid that, too.
Bikes are already seen as dangerous by many people, and we’ve all been taught from a young age that “speed kills.” If this were true, the German Autobahns would be the most dangerous places on the planet, but they aren’t, and. Sadly, as George Carlin said, “Governments don’t want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.
If someone tells me they think e-bikes are dangerous, I simply ask them why. They usually approach the problem from the perspective of a driver or a pedestrian, because those are shoes they’ve walked in. The trick is to then ask them why they don’t feel comfortable riding a bike for transportation, and the answer to that question is almost always the cars they’d be sharing space with.
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