Originally Posted by
Digital_Cowboy
I just received my FBA newsletter. They have an article about how thanks to a new law or a change to the law, motorized vehicles i.e. ebikes will have to be allowed to use public bike paths and rail-to-trails.
As somehow they fall under the umbrella of a mobility device. And all an officer can ask is it for disabled use, and nothing else.
I'm sorry, but to me a mobility device, is a device that one can take inside of a store, office, restaurant, theater, etc. Not something that one uses to get to their destination but leaves outside.
Not that the law really cares how you define something.
Here in Texas electric bicycles are permitted anywhere standard bicycles are. And the law defines electric bicycles as not being able to go over 20 mph without human power and weighing under 100 lbs, so they really won't be going much faster than standard bicycles. Seems reasonable to me.
Are standard bicycles allowed on these paths? If so, I see no problem, as long as they define electric bicycle similarly to Texas. (If they permit the 1000 watt jobs that'll do 40 mph, then that's a bit extreme.)