E-bike popularity brings problems on busy streets
Carlsbad declared a state of emergency Tuesday after seeing two bicycle fatalities this month and a huge jump in bicycle collisions over the past two years.
Bob Embree, Christine’s husband, had addressed the council previously to ask the city to do something about speeding in his neighborhood.“Never in a million years did I think three weeks later my wife would be hit,” said Embree, a firefighter paramedic who described his wife’s fatal injuries in detail. “We have to slow people down. We must manually inconvenience people to slow them down.”
Carlsbad, like many cities, saw a significant increase in bike and e-bike riders during the COVID-19 pandemic. “The exponential increase in ridership, especially among young people, has significantly changed how people are using Carlsbad’s roads,” City Manager Scott Chadwick said in a news release Tuesday.
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