Would you let your 14-year-old ride a scooter? Probably not. And yet thousands of students of that age and even younger (because who's really checking?) make their way to school on electric bikes that are indistinguishable from scooters.
School is just an excuse. These children will wait until school ends to burst into the parking lot, rip their bikes from their seats, and speed off. And their path is not clear to them or to the legislator. Is the right way to ride a bike on the sidewalk or the road? Vehicles belong on the road, but children, on the other hand, belong on the sidewalk. Most children know to be careful and not to go out onto the road. They are also of an age where only a few years ago they rode three-wheeled bicycles and remember what is allowed and what is not allowed. Therefore, they do not go out onto the road without giving their mother a hand; they stay on the sidewalk and ride on it.
Every year, dozens of pedestrians are injured by electric bicycles. Some are taken to hospitals and their injuries are recorded in the injury report, while the majority are brought to justice after suffering physical and mental injuries that leave a mark on their lives, such as elderly people who are afraid to leave the house, children who are afraid to walk on the sidewalks, and others who were hit or almost hit by this passing vehicle.
Those who drive on the road endanger themselves and the vehicles that are not always noticed in time.
Every year, many children are injured while driving on the road. Has anyone taught them the rules of the road? Has anyone noticed that a 14-year-old child does not know what a road is? These children talk on the phone while driving, they do not consider red lights and often drive against the direction of traffic.
Every driver could tell you about the kid who passed them at top speed on his motorized bicycle!.
Electric bicycles - why are they good? Who do they serve?
The storm surrounding electric bicycles keeps the children who ride them awake.
Suddenly they start talking about issuing a bicycle license.
Disaster and devastation. From today, not every child will be able to ride their bike as if it were a toy, from today they will need a license to ride them.
Terrible and terrible!
How can they do this to a 14-year-old boy? Poor thing. Is there no mercy for the little boy? And how do we think he will get to school without his electric bike?
And how can the 12-year-old who looks like a 14-year-old impress his friends with a dizzying ride through the neighborhood streets?
We often make the mistake of bringing a wasp nest into the bed and then ask: How do we get it out?
Whining and howling
And now that the storm is in full swing,
The 14-year-old gets up and whines: They took my bike!
The 16-year-old stood up and roared: Get a license? Who's heard of a bicycle driver's license?
Bicycles are a tool, but not everyone needs help.
A bicycle is a game. But there are games that are not intended for children.
Here the authorities must demonstrate courageous maturity. Mother said no? – So no!
In the past, there was a temporary law that said it was forbidden to ride a motorized bicycle faster than 25 km/h. It was forbidden for anyone under the age of 14 to ride, and it was forbidden to ride without a helmet.
Was there a law? Then there was. No one enforced the law and I'm not sure the children themselves knew about its existence.
The bicycles sold in the store could reach speeds of up to 50 km/h and even 70 km/h.
There is no reason to give children such a powerful vehicle. Leave them the old-fashioned bicycles.
It's true that it sounds like part of the older generation's chants. Today's children are something different and today's young people need different stimuli.
But respected authorities, you adults in the group, stop worrying about the children all day long - if you don't stop now and immediately, with this oversight, more people will be injured, more will be harmed, and then you will ask yourself: Why didn't we think of this before? How do we get rid of this creep?
And maybe something for the future:
End the act with forethought. Don't allow in advance what doesn't need to be allowed.
Don't give them guns! And you won't have to ask all day: Why are they shooting?
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