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Enough with the e-bikes and e-scooters

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Enough with the e-bikes and e-scooters

Why are they so loathed? It is because e-bikes and e-scooters are bikes, cars or pedestrians depending on what they choose

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Open this photo in gallery:An e-scooter rider crossing Bay St. in Toronto’s Financial District is photographed on Sept 5, 2024.Fred Lum/The Globe and MailShareSave for laterPlease log in to bookmark this story.Log InCreate Free Account“As free as a bird,” or so the saying goes. It should be “As free as an e-bike.” Birds, despite being able to fly, have constraints (think: migration instincts). E-bikes, along with e-scooters (electric kick scooters) and e-mopeds do not, at least not in practice. That’s why, it seems, e-bikes and e-scooters are almost universally loathed. It is the only thing drivers and cyclists can agree on.

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