Perspectives: Enforce the dangerous stuff. But the numbers say cars are killing Calgarians, not e-bikes.
livewirecalgary.com
Calgary city councillor Mike Jamieson recently laid out what residents have been reporting: e-bikes, e-scooters, and electric dirt bikes ridden at excessive speeds, without helmets, through parks, playgrounds, and pathways shared with pedestrians and young kids. The City was candid that the technology has outrun the rules, that gaps exist between City bylaws and provincial […]

For the record I am a daily pedestrian and my close-calls with being hit have gone from never in my life to basically every day

Im getting genuine anxiety about crossing the street now because I keep getting driven into even though it is my pedestrian light. Article is an editorial but I can attest to a ramp up in danger from vehicles, and our pedestrian deaths have skyrocketed from their previous record (15) to 40 and the year isnt even done yet.

    • 1egg4u@lemmy.caOPMEnglish
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      14 小时前

      To be fair I have a number of clients who work ER and apparently lack of helmets is a huge driving force in e-bike deaths

      But absolutely cars just arent looking and theyre so big now the outcomes are worse