On Saturday, 31 August 2019 08:51:55 UTC-4, Stephen Bauman wrote:
On Friday, August 30, 2019 at 11:33:17 PM UTC-4, Frank Krygowski wrote:
To me, this seems nuts - 28 miles per hour on park paths?

https://news.yahoo.com/apnewsbreak-c...142615810.html

It's been pointed out that until now, if you could ride 28 mph, you had probably
spent lots of time riding a bike. By trial and error, if nothing else, you knew
a bit about handling the bike at speed.

Now we can get prosperous newbies who can barely balance blasting along at high
speed past hikers and horses. Crazy.

- Frank Krygowski

28 mph e-bikes mixing with pedal bikes on bike trails and urban bike lanes is bad policy. The frequency of conflicts between fast and slow moving users depends on the number of users, the width of the facility and the relative speed difference between users. There are already dangerous conditions between cyclists and pedestrians on 3 heavily used bridge MUP's in NYC: Brooklyn; Queensboro; and George Washington. Adding legally sanctioned e bikes going at twice the bicycle speed to this mix would be catastrophic. I'd suggest that e bike speeds be limited to 15 mph, when using pedistrian/pedal cycle MUP's.

They should be banned from MUPs entirely! My experiences seem to show that the riders of those bikes won't slow down for others and the sight-lines on many MUPs are terrible. Ebikes and MUPs are accidents waiting to happen.

Cheers