Another concept is an accommodation for physical disabilities, which we do now. I know: seems counter productive given the current obesity epidemic ...
Sent from my iPhone On Sep 16, 2013, at 11:50 AM, William Hauda <[email protected]> wrote: > > Most efforts are now directed at limiting speed and requiring pedal > power. However, it may not be all that simple. Here's an E-bike well on its > way to becoming a car. > http://www.organictransit.com/ > Note the FAQs for the claim that this is a bicycle under federal law. > Although the states are not bound by that. > Something the Wisconsin Nonmotorized Recreation and Transportation > Trails Council will take up. > Bill Hauda > > At 11:09 AM 9/16/2013, Steve Arnold wrote: >> On 9/16/2013 9:46 AM, Larry D. Nelson wrote: >>> Great article. With the aging of America's population, I suspect that >>> the trend to e-bicycles may prove irresistible. >> >> It appears to me that the way out of all the confusion is to regulate by >> speed, not by power source. Bikes can be allowed on sidewalks (e.g., kids, >> accessing parking) if they are limited to walking speeds. Human or electric >> powered bikes can be allowed on multi-use paths up to 12 or 15 mph. Maybe >> cycletracks, which explicitly exclude peds, could be higher or even >> unlimited. Bike lanes should have the same limits as motor vehicles (so >> watch your speed in the 25 mph zone downhill on Seminole Hwy north of the >> Beltline!). >> >> I do think that electric bikes will cause us to consider regulating the >> speed of "bikes". >> >>> On Sep 16, 2013, at 9:27 AM, "Meiers, Steve" <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>>> http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2013/09/coming-battle-over-electric-bicycles/6763/ >> -- >> Steve Arnold, Fitchburg Alder, District 4, Seat 7 >> 2530 Targhee Street, Fitchburg, Wisconsin 53711-5491 >> Telephone +1 608 278 7700 · Facsimile +1 608 278 7701 >> [email protected] · http://www.Arnold.US >> _______________________________________________ >> Bikies mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org > > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
