Editor,
Thank you for your coverage of Assemblymember Diane Papan’s bill to create a San Mateo County pilot program restricting e-bike usage to riders age 12 and up.
Editor,
Thank you for your coverage of Assemblymember Diane Papan’s bill to create a San Mateo County pilot program restricting e-bike usage to riders age 12 and up.
Assembly Bill 2595 would allow each town or city to decide to implement restrictions. Hillsborough is among the towns that have studied the issue and hoped for more local control to get young kids off these fast and heavy devices. We also need further state regulation, as Assemblymember Papan acknowledged, and I applaud her and her colleagues for taking on this issue.
Bicycling advocates, parents, kids, police and school administrators should all be able to agree on an age restriction. Further regulations are needed (a higher age for Class 2, which have a throttle; maximum speed clarifications; audible noise additions; stronger counters against the ability to “jail break” speed restricting controls; prohibition of tandem riding, etc.), but this pilot is a fantastic start.
Leslie Ragsdale
Hillsborough
The letter writer is the vice mayor of Hillsborough.
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(1) comment
How many 11-year-olds have been hurt in Hillsborough on Class I & II e-bikes?
I wish the Town spent more time issuing tickets to car drivers who actually threaten kids' lives on the way to school each morning.
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