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The world's 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars (theconversation.com)
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[–] 55 points 2 years ago (11 children)

My only problem with ebikes is there's no chance in hell I'm consistently driving on the road with cars.

With how convenient these are, I hope there's more push to add protected bike lanes in road heavy places to increase adoption.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Get an electric scooter, Vespa size. It's super convenient.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago* (7 children)

    To clarify - I'm not going on the road in anything but a car

    Protected lanes or paths only for me on any form of bike/scooter

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    So you are afraid of cars so you take your own car... I fully understand that but it is all the problem.

    We have to constantly remind drivers that road are for everyone, and not only to go full speed.

    Here they painted bikes on roads and put speed limit at 30kmh so it is better, drivers seems more conscious, but we still see too much distracted people that don't realize they can easily kill someone just by not looking constantly at the road.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm a bit in the same situation. I can a lot with my bike but it's dangerous at times, especially with my kids in the back. People need to go to places and unfortunately, everything we built for the last 70years were almost just for cars.

    There's a need for more bike lanes and bus/tramways/métro.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    Even with more bike lanes, we need better visibility at points where bike lanes intersect with the roadway to better alert both the car and biker to the danger. They've been working on painting those areas all green on the road here, but there's a lot of spots to do.

    E.g bike lane intersecting an entrance to a parking lot

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    There are way too many cyclist accidents here, it's not worth it. Some of the accidents even happen at the special bike crossings because of bad drivers.

    And scooters just like motorcycles are death traps.

    Edit: nearly everyone I know who's commuted to work on a bike has been hit by a car at some point. Not all city speed hits, some just taps. And the stories of how shitty the drivers are to them on the road is astounding.

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