The safety organisation VeiligheidNL estimates that 5,000 fatbike riders are treated in A&E [ i.e Accident & Emergency] departments each year, on the basis of a recent sample of hospitals. “And we also see that especially these young people aged from 12 to 15 have the most accidents,” said the spokesperson Tom de Beus.
Now Amsterdam’s head of transport, Melanie van der Horst, has said “unorthodox measures” are needed and has announced that she will ban these heavy electric bikes from city parks, starting in the Vondelpark. Like the city of Enschede, which is also drawing up a city centre ban, she is acting on a stream of requests “begging me to ban the fatbikes”.
More than 10000 death per year are due to air pollution. About half are due to traffic emission (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5564403_Long-Term_Effects_of_Traffic-Related_Air_Pollution_on_Mortality_in_a_Dutch_Cohort_NLCS-AIR_Study)
74% of households in the netherlands have a car. Only 6% of cars are electric
Most road fatalities are cyclists. Most road deaths occur in crashes involving a car: single-car crashes, car-car crashes and bicycle-car crashes (https://swov.nl/en/fact-sheet/road-deaths-netherlands).
Boomers: woW ThoSe ElecTriC BikEs ArE Very DangerOus
Nothing’s worse than vroomers, polluting the earth and spreading lung cancer to little children while comfortably lying in their fatzo mover, whining about kids having bikes. It’s a social panick, and the proof is that there is no studies, no figures, nothing in the article. Just testimonies and vibes-based moralism.
And yes, I know you, yes, you, are getting mad at reading this because deep down you know you are a polluter and a piece of shit.
Well, stay mad, idiot.
This is such a dumb argument to make. “Worse problems exist, so let’s not do anything about this one”. Who did you think you’d convince by writing all this out? What a waste of time.
Check the user name and the account age, then stop feeding the troll.
People still do that?
Apparently.
It’s not like they’re entirely unconnected, more bikes means less cars, which is great for all the reasons they mentioned. Then again they completely miss the point in that there are real safety issues around these bikes, and fixing those won’t mean a complete reduction in bike use.