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Silent but Deadly: Inside Longboat Key’s Great E-Bike Reckoning
Are they the silent killers — e-bikes and e-scooters whisking quietly over our island, where even the Mennonites race around over the bridge — and there seems to be no stopping them, or at least no hearing them. I bring this up because that is precisely how it feels at 8:15 on a Tuesday, when [...]
I bring this up because that is precisely how it feels at 8:15 on a Tuesday, when you are ambling along the sidewalk on Gulf of Mexico Drive, contemplating nothing more dangerous than whether to risk supermarket Sushi for lunch, and a 70-pound electric machine roughly the size of a Vespa passes eighteen inches off your left hip at the speed of a moving violation. It is piloted by a silent figure in wraparound sunglasses who does not say “on your left,” does not ring a bell, does not brake, and does not appear to register your existence as a fellow mammal.
There is no stopping them. …
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