Commuter diaries – Cycling is an Answer not a Question!

Fact.

The van fire that closed the a31 and burnt a square km of the new forest must have been an ice, if it was an electric van we wouldn't have heard the end of it. And the Luton multi storey car park fire. All li ion batteries have a risk of combusting, damage makes it more likely, and charging even more. Especially with iffy chargers. Charging points for phones, laptops and tablets on most trains these days, and buses? TfL banned ebikes a while back, it was only going to spread. GWR were meant to have banned dodgy ebikes, though I haven't seen that being enforced. Have seen people being removed for escooters though, and got round the ban by folding and placing in a bin liner.

Laptop computers and mobile phones have lithium batteries, so they will have to ban them as well.

The rest in orange?...

Nonsense based on misinformation. Petrol and diesel cars are significantly more likely to catch fire than an EAPC from a reputable brand. Are you proposing on banning them from station car parks too?

If this is the case, I wonder why I can even buy an ebike battery, bring it into my home, take it to public places, take it in my hand luggage when I fly,.. Looking forward to reading a proper risk assessment, informed by science.

I wondered about this too. Did he get the appropriate RTO or whatever official legal permission to post such instructions on the public highway (of which the pavement is a part?) As for the double negative aspect of it... 🤦🏻

We have to hope.. REAL infrastructure ( not painted lines on clogged choking roads ) is what is needed to encourage the shift. Do as the Netherlands, make it MUCH easier to cycle to your destination rather than drive. Make driving harder, less and less convenient and provide meaningful alternatives.

Honestly, I don't see the point here. E-bike batteries are a danger, that is simply a fact - and it doesn't apply just to illegally converted bikes. Even a perfectly legal bike could get it's battery damaged, resulting in a hard-to-cointain, potentially lethal fire whose consequences could go into millions of pounds. And what's just as important, we can't expect railway workers to know the technicalities required to confidently decide whether a given bike is OK or not. Just because you like your e-bike and it helps you get to work does not make it any less dangerous. Just like there is a blanket ban on petrol canisters (even certtified ones, which are genrally safe to use), a blanket ban on e-bikes is just common sense and a justified precaution.

No, just non-folding ones...for some inexplicable reason.