PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Member of the Public on E-Bike Safety and Regulation
5:16:52
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126 sec
The speaker addresses the issue of e-bike safety and regulation, arguing against a knee-jerk response to implement licensing. They emphasize the need for a more thoughtful approach based on historical data and experiences from other cities that have tried and abandoned e-bike licensing programs.
- The speaker points out that five North American cities, including Toronto, have implemented and then canceled e-bike licensing programs.
- They suggest forming a committee to study successful solutions and consider both prevention and accountability measures.
- The testimony highlights the importance of looking at past experiences and statistics before implementing new regulations.
UNKNOWN
5:16:52
This is this is now okay.
5:16:54
Good evening.
5:16:55
It's now evening, I think.
5:16:56
I'd just like to charge anyone in this room or anyone that was in this room that e bikes are a menace.
5:17:03
They are obviously a problem.
5:17:04
There obviously needs something to happen.
5:17:07
Obviously, the paramount issue is safety.
5:17:09
Everyone wants safety.
5:17:11
Everyone's in agreement that safety is the issue.
5:17:13
However, there are 2 ways to respond.
5:17:16
There is either prevention or there is, accountability.
5:17:20
And you can have both, you can have 1, or you can have the other.
5:17:23
And so the question is, how do you proceed?
5:17:25
And so the way that usually you proceed when you come with a problem is you look to the past, you look to history, you look for,
UNKNOWN
5:17:32
statistics,
UNKNOWN
5:17:33
you look for other solutions rather than just knee jerking and responding, assuming that you know the best.
5:17:40
There have been 5 cities in North America who have actually implemented e bike licensing, and they've all canceled them, including Toronto, which I don't know where you got that stat.
5:17:49
I got the stat from toronto.ca, which they still have they you do not require a license in order to have an ebike in Toronto, along with 5 other cities, including LA and Seattle.
5:18:00
So we should look to those people, the the people that have actually implemented that, and then it failed.
5:18:05
We should we should have, say, someone to go there and talk to them and say, what has what has gone wrong?
5:18:11
Is there a better way to do licensing?
5:18:13
Is there a better way to do something in in accordance with licensing?
5:18:17
That's what we need to do.
5:18:18
We don't want to just knee jerk and say, oh, licensing, that's definitely the issue.
5:18:22
That's not that's been proven to be not the issue in 6 other different cases.
5:18:27
So I'd like to have a a committee that actually figures out what the what the solution is, whether it be licensing, which is definitively a possibility that is not off the table, and I think the chairman has tried to make that very clear, and just come up with a better solution for everybody to to to have better safety and to have better accountability and to have everyone not be, menaced by bikes.
5:18:51
It's terrifying.
5:18:52
If you took all of the, talk about the fact that people are oh, I'll let let Thank you.
5:18:57
Thank you
