The speed, too, is a safety issue. Studies show that differences in speed between vehicles sharing a road are a statistical cause of crashes, and many of New York’s streets are shared between bikes and cars. A bike that can do the 25-mph speed limit is safer than one that can’t.
The future of personal mobility shouldn’t be autonomous EVs, it should be e-bikes. E-bikes that are lightweight, that don’t spew tire microplastics into the environment, that require little power to move a person from point A to point B.
This is the sort of safe, common-sense stuff that should be a boilerplate on every article.
The article is not correct. Tires wear off on ebikes just the same.
Actual infrastructure dedicated for bicycles and other mobility options would nearly eliminate the “speed difference” issue in most cases.
A nearby city is ripping up one side of their main street and finally putting a physical barrier between the cars and the bikes.
Before it was just a painted line that got completely ignored, then it was the occasional traffic cone which kept getting stolen, then they tried those plastic bollards that are just hollow plastic, which just got run over.
It only took 3 deaths that I know of and countless children being injured.
That’s interesting. I paid a bit over a grand (a lot of money, sure) for what amounts to a full-on scooter with pedals. Seemed amazingly good value to me! For information, I’m not in the USA and the e-bike comes from a certain large hegemonic Asian country.
Funny thing is I’ve been thinking $1,500 isn’t a bad price for an alterative mode is transportation that isn’t a second car. I’ve even seen options that go over 750 watts of power, but those are classified as mopeds in my area, need to be licensed, and cannot use bike paths. An actual, classifiable electric bicycle does seem weirdly hard to find.
$1,000 gets you a Lectric XPress e-bike, possibly the cheapest option that meets all my city criteria. If you want a more established brand
I’m pretty sure Lectric is one of the biggest e-bike brands in the US by number of sales. How much more “established” can you get?
This article is spot on.
Agree wholeheartedly.
