e-bikes should be banned. Cyclists are the worst. You get far more bad cyclists than you do bad drivers. When living in Australia 12 years ago, i almost got knocked over by cyclists over a dozen times when they run red lights, refuse to slow down.

At one point they were rebuilding the side-walk and so the workers coned off the bike path to let people walk for a week while the pavement work happened, in 1 week that it was closed off I saw cyclists verbally abuse people, myself included, for walking on a cycle way that was blocked off to cyclists and the workmen were tellign them to cycle on the road.

~600 deaths 35,000 hospitalisation due to car accidents.

~85 deaths 13,000 hospitalisation due to cycling accidents.

But in any case when walking in the city I feel safe walking with cars. But I don’t feel safe with cyclists. They rush through red lights. Rush through intersections while people are crossing. I’ve witnessed accidents occur due to cyclists not following the laws. If they followed the laws and slowed down. Stopped and gave way like they are meant to. I wouldn’t have an issue.

Why didn't the workers cone off a lane from the street to make space for the bikes? Cars usually have easier alternatives, they can just take another lane.

EDIT: But anyway, the real viable alternative to cars is probably not bikes, it's trains and buses.

Living in asia I love having MRTs.