Imagine you live in a carcentric society and you take a person whose only conception of cars is gokarts they rode as a child. You then hand them the keys to a sportscar and send them on their merry way on the highway. That's what it's like to have a bunch of tourists on e-bikes in a city with bike-friendly infrastructure.
From my experience in the UK, they don't have a clue how to cycle safely. No awareness of what's going on around them, weaving along and between the pavement/cycle lane/car lane at random, cycling as many abreast as can fit on the path expecting everyone else to make room for them, suddenly stopping in the middle of the path to look at their phone - basically, people who think of it as an alternative form of pedestrianism rather than controlling a moving vehicle. Things that would be inconvenient as a pedestrian become an active danger on a road or cycle path.
Look, I appreciate you're trying to save the environment, but we have electric buses that will take you directly to the tourist attractions without congesting my already shitty cycling infrastructure. It's bad enough having to cycle next to a wall of death (dual carriageway) without throwing a Wipeout obstacle in my way too.
If you're guilty of this I want you to know you'd get the wall in my socialist utopia. We'd resurrect Stalin and make him read urban planning theory exclusively and then have him travel around Copenhagen in the summer with an AK47. (this is hyperboly)
What's the matter with ebiketourists?
Imagine you live in a carcentric society and you take a person whose only conception of cars is gokarts they rode as a child. You then hand them the keys to a sportscar and send them on their merry way on the highway. That's what it's like to have a bunch of tourists on e-bikes in a city with bike-friendly infrastructure.
From my experience in the UK, they don't have a clue how to cycle safely. No awareness of what's going on around them, weaving along and between the pavement/cycle lane/car lane at random, cycling as many abreast as can fit on the path expecting everyone else to make room for them, suddenly stopping in the middle of the path to look at their phone - basically, people who think of it as an alternative form of pedestrianism rather than controlling a moving vehicle. Things that would be inconvenient as a pedestrian become an active danger on a road or cycle path.
Look, I appreciate you're trying to save the environment, but we have electric buses that will take you directly to the tourist attractions without congesting my already shitty cycling infrastructure. It's bad enough having to cycle next to a wall of death (dual carriageway) without throwing a Wipeout obstacle in my way too.
If you're guilty of this I want you to know you'd get the wall in my socialist utopia. We'd resurrect Stalin and make him read urban planning theory exclusively and then have him travel around Copenhagen in the summer with an AK47. (this is hyperboly)
Jokes on you I'd get the wall in MY socialist utopia too