Walkers on the Blue Mile in North Wollongong talk about e-bikes.

Illawarra Mercury

The Illawarra Mercury walked the Blue Mile in North Wollongong asking the public what their thoughts were about the use of e-bikes on the shared path way. Video by Adam McLean. Interviews by Joel Ehsman.

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00:00i think they're very good for older people like us and they you know the kids enjoy them too get

00:06some out and about but you know they like a lot of things they've gone a bit too far with them i

00:12think yeah and do you think anybody should be allowed to share piles like these uh well not

00:18not the big powerful ones but i mean the normal e-bikes like we ride the ones with pedals right

00:24yeah with no different cycles yeah i just think it's too busy already um we've got a lot of

00:29foot traffic a lot of people walking animals um even people in wheelchairs i think e-bikes you

00:35know starting to get the infrastructure on the roads for them to be on the roads um they are

00:40deemed a vehicle so i think there's too much foot traffic here for a bike to be here in my opinion

00:45yeah she's um she's pretty good to be honest she's just friendly so she just she sees something moving

00:49she just wants to play with it so i think it's a safety thing with someone riding fast and then a

00:53dog coming out there she just wants to play with everyone as you've seen so um i wouldn't say she's

00:57scared of them i think she's just it's still just as dangerous but just because she wants to run

01:01towards them uh i can see the benefits of them but um they've got these people

01:09yeah you guys think that you should be allowed to share piles like a blue mile

01:14probably not no yeah no i think normal bikes are fine but e-bikes are a bit quick if someone walks out

01:19in front of her i think how they like if they ride the minute matter that they're safe and they're going

01:24and they're slowing right down than yes but a lot of time they're like chucking tricks and racing

01:29through and almost hanging i think they're fine honestly i couldn't get a little hustle like if

01:34they just did the right thing it doesn't really matter yeah instead of the left it's fine yeah so

01:39that's the main thing is as long as they're doing the right thing they're doing the following the

01:42rules yeah yeah yeah and you don't think that there's they should be taking away some shared

01:46paths or anything like that not learn at all share space share it with bikes

01:54you

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