California School Bans Kids' E-Bikes, So They Start Parking Them At The Neighbors' Homes

a month ago by resipsaloquitur to c/fuckcars

A California school district wanted electric bikes away from its younger students' campuses. The bikes did not necessarily disappear. Some of them moved
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AviAdi 50 points a month ago

Ebikes are a huge story here in LA. The amount of backlash against these bikes is insane, it's being treated like the next opium addiction. The FUNNIEST thing is more pedestrians and kids are STILL killed by cars. However if you turned the news on it would seem that ebikes are killing kids and pedestrians in a record number.

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Naich 47 points a month ago

Cheap personal transport that doesn't need a licence and doesn't burn gasoline? What sort of unamerican communism is this?

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AviAdi 31 points a month ago

Another issue is unsupervised children than can actually explore their neighborhood! No! Kids don't deserve freedom like that in the USA!!! IT'S TOO DANGEROUS STAY INDOORS AT ALL TIMES

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Venator 3 points a month ago

They might end up in the wrong neighborhood and see the effects of inequality first hand!

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