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[+] -12 points 6 months ago (8 children)
  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    That person was literally walking though?

    walkway at Golden Gate Park

    I was looking up at the trees in the park (as you do in parks)

    hear a slight scream from one of the pedestrians in front of me

    I quickly stepped off the walkway

    I guess pedestrians are also disgusting polluters to you?

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  • [+] -4 points 6 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    How does someone flying make them in any way dangerous in traffic, compared to someone who rides an unlimited speed electric motorcycle on a pedestrian walkway though?

    I do hope you at least keep your money where your mouth is and only take bikes everywhere, even if it's several hundred or thousand miles.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Don't get me wrong, I think the proposed legislation is taking the wrong approach and I think e-bikes are overall a good thing. I'm just saying that I see the reason why California wants to add some additional regulation to a motorized transport.

    I have no problem with people riding regular bikes on sidewalks. Roads are scary as a cyclist surrounded by vehicles several times heavier than yours. People are riding e-bikes on the sidewalks everywhere I go. It makes walking scary on infrastructure made for walking. If you get hit by someone on a bike going 20 mph (~32 km/hr), someone is getting seriously hurt. This guy was actively endangering pedestrians.

    Also, no matter how you look at it, e-bikes (individualized transport) are a worse thing for the environment than public transportation (communal transport), and certainly worse than walking (what I was doing in the walkway).

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  • [+] -2 points 6 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    I'm whining about someone swinging a bat at people on the sidewalk while the whole neighborhood is on fire. The fire is a worse problem, and we should take care of it before it burns down everything. But someone should really take that bat away from that guy or at least replace it with a wiffle ball bat before someone gets hurt.

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