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Originally Posted by JGibson
Just curious are e-bikes allowed on Buena Vista, Morse, 466, and 441?
And if so which ones are allowed?
It's bizarre a bicycle can cross 441 at the light from Spanish Springs to Historic side but not golf carts.
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They're permitted, because there exists no laws regarding e-bikes yet. Just like when commercial civilian mopeds first came out, no one needed a license, or registration, or insurance, or even a helmet to drive one. Because they were new. Legislation can't legislate for something that hasn't ever previously existed.
Eventually all states came up with laws about mopeds. The same will eventually happen with e-bikes. Until then, we're stuck without any actual laws regarding them.
Obviously e-bike riders will want no legislation at all.
Obviously people who have had to be inconvenienced at the very least, harmed at the most, by e-bikes, want some legislation.
Most people who haven't ever experienced or witnessed an e-bike in action will either a) have no opinion, b) be skeptical, but not suspicious, or c) be perfectly fine with no legislation.
We already have laws about the little zip-scooters, those things that look like skateboards with a handle and a loud but small gas motor that shoots people through parking lots at 20mph. We have laws for ATVs, and for LSVs, and motor scooters. There is even a statute regarding the category of vehicles in which a Segway qualifies. Now we just need for legislation to catch up with reality, because those e-bikes aren't going anywhere. And the more people who have them, the more risk for accidents and injury due to people not really knowing what they should, or shouldn't do, when riding them or being passed by them.