The five biggest Dutch cities are urging the government to let them ban fatbikes, e-scooters and other motor-powered vehicles from cycle lanes to prevent “total chaos,” the Telegraaf reported on Wednesday. “Cycle lanes should be a safe place for all cyclists, not just the biggest, strongest and fastest,” the cities’ transport chiefs said in a joint statement to parliament’s infrastructure committee, which is debating road safety on Thursday. Local authorities have long warned that cycle lanes are overloaded and were...
Important detail before everyone gets railed up about the rage bate headline:
The five biggest Dutch cities are urging the government to let them ban fatbikes, e-scooters and other motor-powered vehicles from cycle lanes to prevent “total chaos,” the Telegraaf reported on Wednesday.
I have no clue about dutch regulations of light electric vehicles like e-scooters, but the (overall not quite detailed) article talks about demands for a speed limit (30km/h), I assume there is not much regulation (yet). In that case, this seems to be a reasonable demand.
For comparison, german regulation says e-bikes (spedelecs) and scooters with a max speed of up to 25 km/h belong on bike paths, everything with a higher max speed needs a license, insurance and plates and is prohibited from using bike paths.
25 km/h (or 30) can seem quite fast but is not too hard to achieve so these speeds are not unusual for bike paths.
S-Pedelecs (S for speed) are specifically those that go up to 45 km/h. The 25 km/h ones are simply pedelecs.
25 km/h is a regular biking speed for average fitness drivers.
I had been biking a trail with a 10km/h speed limit. one day I was injured and opted to take the ebike instead. the manual bike has no speed measuring but going about the same speed by feel and sight on the ebike I realized I was going around 40 even on the manual bike. Then out of curiosity I delimited the ebike and went on the road and tried going 70 and fuck that shit its the scariest fucking thing in my life.
Important detail before everyone gets railed up about the rage bate headline:
I have no clue about dutch regulations of light electric vehicles like e-scooters, but the (overall not quite detailed) article talks about demands for a speed limit (30km/h), I assume there is not much regulation (yet). In that case, this seems to be a reasonable demand.
For comparison, german regulation says e-bikes (
spedelecs) and scooters with a max speed of up to 25 km/h belong on bike paths, everything with a higher max speed needs a license, insurance and plates and is prohibited from using bike paths.25 km/h (or 30) can seem quite fast but is not too hard to achieve so these speeds are not unusual for bike paths.
S-Pedelecs (S for speed) are specifically those that go up to 45 km/h. The 25 km/h ones are simply pedelecs. 25 km/h is a regular biking speed for average fitness drivers.
Thanks, got that mixed up. Fixed.
I had been biking a trail with a 10km/h speed limit. one day I was injured and opted to take the ebike instead. the manual bike has no speed measuring but going about the same speed by feel and sight on the ebike I realized I was going around 40 even on the manual bike. Then out of curiosity I delimited the ebike and went on the road and tried going 70 and fuck that shit its the scariest fucking thing in my life.