And it has come to this. In a nutshell, an inflow of e-bikes on Maroon Creek Road has created a security challenge that by no means existed earlier than e-bikes. Now Pitkin County seeks to alleviate the difficulty by punishing those that neither created the issue nor have ever been the basis of the issue.
If the county desires to deal with the difficulty, please direct the answer to those that created it. Not the remainder of us. The backside line is that those that pedal bicycles with out the help of electrical motors don’t have any want for a lesson in biking etiquette. We know very effectively {that a} bicycle has little or no likelihood towards a 3,500-pound automotive, no much less a bus.
I don’t imply to level the proverbial finger in any respect e-bike riders, as a result of a lot of them perceive the dangers of biking. That being mentioned, the huge variety of vacationers driving, not pedaling, their e-bikes up Maroon Creek Road, or any highway within the county for that matter have not often, if ever, even ridden a motorbike, particularly in mountainous terrain.
In quick, if the county seeks an answer, then please direct that resolution in the direction of those that created its want, not in the direction of these of us who haven’t.
Jamie Klein
Carbondale
Editor’s be aware: At Wednesday’s assembly of Pitkin County commissioners, the board indicated it’s leaning towards having guests who lease bikes and e-bikes to pay a charge and reserve a spot to journey to the Maroon Bells. Local residents can be excluded from the coverage into consideration.
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