Perspectives: Enforce the dangerous stuff. But the numbers say cars are killing Calgarians, not e-bikes. - LiveWire Calgary

2 months ago by 1egg4u to c/calgary

Calgary city councillor Mike Jamieson recently laid out what residents have been reporting: e-bikes, e-scooters, and electric dirt bikes ridden at excessive speeds, without helmets, through parks, playgrounds, and pathways shared with pedestrians and young kids. The City was candid that the technology has outrun the rules, that gaps exist between City bylaws and provincial […]

For the record I am a daily pedestrian and my close-calls with being hit have gone from never in my life to basically every day

Im getting genuine anxiety about crossing the street now because I keep getting driven into even though it is my pedestrian light. Article is an editorial but I can attest to a ramp up in danger from vehicles, and our pedestrian deaths have skyrocketed from their previous record (15) to 40 and the year isnt even done yet.

OwOarchist 8 points 2 months ago

Even a lot of the 'e-bike' deaths are because ... an e-bike/car collision.

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1egg4u 5 points 2 months ago

To be fair I have a number of clients who work ER and apparently lack of helmets is a huge driving force in e-bike deaths

But absolutely cars just arent looking and theyre so big now the outcomes are worse

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GreenBeard 2 points 2 months ago

Big, and fast. The number of times I heard about someone getting caught doing nearly double the posted speed limit since 2020 has gone up by an order of magnitude, and it seems like the government's best idea to fix things is just keep raising speed limits. I will grant that's anecdotal I can see a valid argument for making speed traps harder to set, but we need to replace those with something, because it's getting ridiculous how poor driving enforcement is encouraging the worst driving behaviour.

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jonzobot 2 points 2 months ago

Honestly I think they should bring average speed cameras here. They would be very effective on a few choice corridors.

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GreenBeard 2 points 2 months ago

Just, not anything associated with Flock, Axon, Palantir or any other American surveillance company.

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