Jaana Rodrigo

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Jaana Rodrigo is a third-year Microbiology and Immunology student at the University of British Columbia and an aspiring physician-researcher. Her current research spans multidisciplinary care for thyroid eye disease, injury prevention and the evaluation of AI models in clinical settings.

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by Ediriweera Desapriya Jaana Rodrigo Farrah Labadie Rehan Sineth Thilakaratne Peter Tiu Jayatilake Herath

Riding the risk: The unintended consequences of blanket e-bike bans

The e-bike panic has the shape of a moral emergency. The evidence doesn't match. City councils from London to New York to right here in Metro Vancouver are moving to ban e-bikes and e-scooters from sidewalks, citing pedestrian danger. It's an easy vote; nobody wants to be the councillors who "didn't do anything" after an elderly resident gets knocked down. But we spent the past several weeks doing what we should always do before legislating fear: checking what the best evidence says.

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