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.