@ErickaSimone functional transit requires bike-friendly neighborhoods where kids can bike themselves to school and people bike to the grocery store, transit hubs. Not a free-for-all where you have to elbow your way through a wall of cars to get anywhere. #eBikes will take us over the gap from our sprawling density to there, if we let them.

@enobacon I love the concepts of e-bikes. Even Vespas. But I’m stuck in LA, where everything is a 30 hop on a freeway.

@ErickaSimone not *everything* is more than 5-10 miles away. In my experience it is easy to average 12-15mph in stop-and-go traffic (on a bike usually you don't stop, at least we legalized that in Oregon), 20 on long trips if you can cruise at ~25 on mostly long straightaways (built with adequate sight distance and minimal crossing conflicts.) #eBikes fit into your full garage and budget, allowing you to drive the car less, not buy a 2nd car, or keep an unreliable 2nd one longer, 0-1 car/fam.

@ErickaSimone All of those short trips are rough on the engine too, starting and stopping cold. If you get an #eBike and start trying to bike to the 1-5 mile trips when you can, not only will you never be stuck in traffic but you also don't need to make time to exercise enough to stay healthy. You'll also quickly notice that you need a more connected low-stress bike network and you are biking past a lot of parking space that could be the businesses and destinations to meet your daily needs.

@enobacon not everything. But work, and events, especially for myself, in music…. We may have to travel the spread. And LA spreads. But I agree. All the local stuff? I’d take an electric everywhere.