Over the last few weeks, I've been planning some future adventures. I probably won't try to go across the country on a bike, largely because I'm a mom of 4 kids and have too many
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been planning some future adventures. I probably won’t try to go across the country on a bike, largely because I’m a mom of 4 kids and have too many life responsibilities to just put it all on pause for an amazing bike tour. So, I’ve been looking at doing some more realistic short treks on the most interesting segments of historical and adventure trails. My asthma and the fact that my fitness isn’t great right now makes using an e-bike the ideal choice for me.
But as this version of the graphic illustrates, the problem isn’t distribution of boxes as much as the design of the fence. If the fence is such that it can let people of all heights see through, then supports are needed. When the supports themselves aren’t available, some people miss out while others get to do things in life.
requiring local managers with the National Park Service, US Forest Service, and Bureau of Land Management to open up trails to e-bikes as long as they have operable pedals and meet other requirements that basically keep people from taking electric motorcycles onto non-motorized trails, which would tear them up and create danger for other trail users.
It isn’t always bureaucratic inefficiency that drives this. In some cases, groups of trail users are actively working to keep e-bikes off trails. Their reasons vary, but they range from environmental concerns , to safety concerns, to simply a defense of the status quo with no real reasoning. These noisy people have been in local managers’ ears coming up with an ample supply of excuses to delay the rulemaking process or just throw it out altogether.
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