• boonhet@sopuli.xyz
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      4 days ago

      That person was literally walking though?

      walkway at Golden Gate Park

      I was looking up at the trees in the park (as you do in parks)

      hear a slight scream from one of the pedestrians in front of me

      I quickly stepped off the walkway

      I guess pedestrians are also disgusting polluters to you?

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        To be fair to them (even though I don’t think they are engaging with me in good faith), I did take a plane to get there. Hard to bike across California, even on one of those e-bikes lol.

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          4 days ago

          How does someone flying make them in any way dangerous in traffic, compared to someone who rides an unlimited speed electric motorcycle on a pedestrian walkway though?

          I do hope you at least keep your money where your mouth is and only take bikes everywhere, even if it’s several hundred or thousand miles.

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      Don’t get me wrong, I think the proposed legislation is taking the wrong approach and I think e-bikes are overall a good thing. I’m just saying that I see the reason why California wants to add some additional regulation to a motorized transport.

      I have no problem with people riding regular bikes on sidewalks. Roads are scary as a cyclist surrounded by vehicles several times heavier than yours. People are riding e-bikes on the sidewalks everywhere I go. It makes walking scary on infrastructure made for walking. If you get hit by someone on a bike going 20 mph (~32 km/hr), someone is getting seriously hurt. This guy was actively endangering pedestrians.

      Also, no matter how you look at it, e-bikes (individualized transport) are a worse thing for the environment than public transportation (communal transport), and certainly worse than walking (what I was doing in the walkway).