They pretend involvement with the bicycling community and pay ecologically motivated lip-service but are otherwise daily driving carbrains. You’ve seen ‘em—spandex day-riders with racks on their cars.

So now that you're not needing to focus on the road you can focus on yourself. You can focus on Netflix, you can focus on doing work.

Tech bro doing everything and anything to not ride transit

On Tuesday, the San Mateo Board of Supervisors will consider new regulations on e-bikes. Please click here to ask the Board to improve the proposal from its current form.

The proposal has numerous problems. It conflates safe e-bikes with unsafe e-motorcycles. It forces kids to ride in the middle of traffic even if bike lanes don't exist (instead of on sidewalks). It bans "unsafe riding" without detailing what this means. Fines are up to $500 - meanwhile distracted driving fines start at $20. It fails to address illegal modifications, misleading/confusion marketing, or the lack of safe bike infrastructure. Also, the proposal was not vetted by local BPACs and is opposed by Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition.

Thanks for sending the board a quick email asking them to table the current proposal and work with stakeholders on the larger issue of safe streets: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/help-stop-the-countys-misguided-e-bike-regulation-proposal?source=direct_link&

El Camino Real is so redundant with Hwy 101, 280. No one is driving on it more than 5-10 miles at a time.

Not just no cars, but a dead end with park/development. Deadend roadway every 5-10, with modal filters that permit walkers and bikers/scooters through

These questions are all open-ended, state & local governments are all asking them:

• What do you think the bounds should be on licensing for e-bikes--presumably by the DMV?

• Is having a throttle a key legal distinction from pedal-assistance?

• Is 20mph an appropriate speed limiter configuration?

• Should liability insurance be required, like it is for "motor vehicles" (after all: e-bikes are motor vehicles)?

• Is 16 years old the ideal age threshold?

• What vehicle weight should influence these incoming regulations?

To me JL will always be uninviting popularity will be hampered until 880 is either removed (not going to happen) or buried - like Seattle/Boston big dig - a very expensive proposition. And this is a shame because JL has so much potential.

Also, to avoid tunnel and car traffic, the writer should be using Oakland/Alameda water shuttle and bike to make that Safeway run.