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[–] 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Does your city have emotos regulations that seem effective? Let me know.

I’m on a Transportation Commission looking at drafting regulations. I’m looking for specific ordinance language that works.

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    The office cites more than 125 deaths nationally attributed to e-bikes and e-motos, says injuries in Southern California have risen more than 430% over four years, and says e-bike and e-moto injuries are now the leading reason Orange County children go to the emergency room. Children ages 11 to 14 account for 61.7% of e-moto crashes, according to the state's SWITRS crash database as cited by the office.

    "We don't want to have to prosecute parents – we want to save kids' lives," District Attorney Todd Spitzer said in the release.

    "We want to save kids' lives" while the OC fights tooth-and-nail against every attempt to make roads safer remotely usable for anyone outside of a car...

    All this just screams that there's severely unmet demand for transportation alternatives.

    But hey, "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas. Thoughts and prayers." etc...

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