The electronic bike is getting very popular in the San Diego bicycle community – so popular, that some suggest that e-bikes may be the next big step in reducing traffic and protecting the environment. E-bikes are battery-powered motorized bicycles. Perhaps you’ve seen a Chinese food delivery person zip by on one, or maybe your coworker uses one to commute to work. Or maybe you’ve seen someone on a bike tackle an uphill climb without missing a beat – e-bikes make things like that effortless. A growing number of planners and biking advocates believe that opening up bike lanes and roads to e-bikes would be a boon to society. However, rules and regulations are drastically different regarding e-bikes in different states and even in different cities. In California, legislation was passed in 2015 that led to regulation of e-bikes as bicycles, instead of mopeds as they were before, making the e-bike…
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